“Some of the leading advocates of Open Source software expect
increasingly bitter battles with traditional software companies
this year over patents and intellectual property rights….”
“[Software companies] are patenting things that have already
been invented,” Perens said. “Eighty five percent of patents in
software have prior art….”
“A lot of people are rushing in trying to get rich quick,”
Allman added. “These people say ‘I’m an open source advocate’
but they’re actually not. They just want to get rich quick …
and that could pervert the revolution.”