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vnunet: Perens Thumps OSDL Patent Pact

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“The patent pool being built by the Open Source Development Labs
(OSDL) is useless in the defence against Microsoft, according to
open source activist Bruce Perens speaking at the LinuxWorld
conference in San Francisco.

“‘The patents come from the wrong people,’ he said during a
meeting with reporters, because only friends of open source will
submit to the pool…”


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