The software patent scandal -- too many patents protecting what are really common industry practice -- is about to raise hell in the European Union. The EC wants to strengthen patent holders rights. Which means U.S. software patent holders and the open source community need to be very wary. Meanwhile, the big software companies with rich patent portfolios -- think IBM and Microsoft -- may find themselves in a better position to extract their fees or their way on the rest of the software industry. Not a good situation for innovation, especially open source.
Peter S. Kastner
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