Say what you want about IP law, but this can only be a good thing for innovation. As long as corporations have IP law on their side, it makes sense to grant it to Open Source; otherwise the companies could just steal those ideas, make a profit off of them, and then lock them down with their own patents anyway.
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Say what you want about IP law, but this can only be a good thing for innovation. As long as corporations have IP law on their side, it makes sense to grant it to Open Source; otherwise the companies could just steal those ideas, make a profit off of them, and then lock them down with their own patents anyway.
I totally agree. Now the punks who stole code from PearPC for CherryOS won't come back!