by manipadisetti
July 7, 2009
A patent grants an exclusive right to an idea or algorithm for a period of up to 20 years, which means forever in the software industry. Patents prohibit others from applying knowledge. Anything that prevents people from using ideas to create new products effectively destroys innovation. Software patents are little more than legal guns that [...]
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by manipadisetti
June 30, 2009
As a open source house, we have sat in meetings with propreitary software vendors and have dealt with proprietary vendors who described open source as “insecure”, “unsupported” “freeware”. I doubt if they are ignorant but if they accepted open source as genuine they need to justify their pricing, I suppose. If anyone believes what the [...]
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