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Roundtable: The state of open source

Roundtable: The state of open source - Bruce Perens, <em>Creator of the Open Source Definition</em>
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Bruce Perens, Creator of the Open Source Definition
"The biggest problem facing open source, and software in general, is software patenting. Copyright is sufficient to protect the proprietary software folks, but they are threatened by software patents, too, as you can see from all of the court cases reported about them. As the situation exists today, it's very easy to get a software patent for something that isn't really an invention at all."





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