[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“According to Shuttleworth, the real problem for both
Microsoft and Linux isn’t “patent trolls,” — that is, companies
that never produce software, but buy up software patents and then
sue those who make these ideas into successful products. No, “It’s
not the patent-holders who are the problem, it’s the patent
system,” he wrote.”