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InfoWorld: Open Source Panelists Tout Business Models, Pan Patents

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Paul Krill
Jan 20, 2005

“Dignitaries from the open source and venture capital
communities serving on a panel Tuesday evening tossed around
perspectives on building a business in open source, but essentially
were in agreement about the potential negative effects of patents
on open source projects.

“Leveraging open source for commercial purposes runs the
gauntlet from selling support services for pure open source
products to using code from open source projects in commercial
ventures…”


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