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NewsForge: Surviving in a World Full of Software Patents

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“To promote freedom in the marketplace open source developers
need to start patenting their inventions.

“We have several reasons why patenting is now a requirement of
last resort:

  1. “Closed source companies are actively seeking to attack open
    source through patents.
  2. “The cost of defending against a patent is enough break the
    bank of even the largest open source projects…”

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