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Only in the US (3.83 / 12) (#1)
by heimdal31 (heimdal31_ip_warsNO@SPAM.threenorth.com) on Fri Nov 12th, 2004 at 12:46:37 EST
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The days that private individuals and groups can freely release their creations are numbered as long as software patents are legal, and companies such as OSRM have a vested interest in keeping it that way.

This is only currently true in the US and a few other places and may be true in the EU if they make the same mistakes.

The result will likely be a blooming of mom and pop projects in third world countries and a loss of US tech dominance. Once it is too late to regain that dominance, US laws will likely be changed, but by then, it will be too late to preserve the US dominance.

Depending on your world-view, that may or may not be a bad thing.

---Tim Rushing

A Legal Gun in the Open-Source Corral | 12 comments (11 topical, 1 editorial, 3 hidden)

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