SearchEnterpriseLinux: Path to Software Innovation Leads Away from Patents | Linux Today

SearchEnterpriseLinux: Path to Software Innovation Leads Away from Patents

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 15, 2005

[ Thanks to Mark
Brunelli
for this link. ]

“At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo this week, it didn’t
pay to be a software patent.

“Whether it was a keynote address by Red Hat Inc.’s deputy
general counsel Mark Webbink or a conference session led by Open
Source Risk Management founder Daniel Egger, the software patent
was slammed as a hindering component to innovation in the
industry…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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