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CNET News: Open-Source Honchos Trash Software Patents

By Stephen Shankland

“Two open-source leaders joined Linux founder Linus Torvalds in
disparaging software patents Tuesday, the newest volley in a battle
that pits the cooperative programming philosophy against
Microsoft.

“‘Are software patents useful? That’s pretty clearly not the
case. Software patents are clearly a problem,’ Torvalds said at the
OSDL Linux Summit here…”


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