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Posted by Soulskill on Monday April 04, 2011 @08:27PM from the peta's-penguin-division dept.

itwbennett writes "Brian Proffitt is blogging about the undercurrent of legal issues troubling the open source world these days and offers up this question: Are patents or copyright a bigger threat to the open source community? Patents are the obvious choice, with inflicting fear being the 'obvious intention of those who have instigated the various legal troubles on open source practitioners.' But the issue of copyright and copyright assignments is no less troublesome, argues Proffitt. And copyright assignment can be confusingly Machievllian, even in open source land."

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Re:Patents (Score:5, Informative)

by geminidomino ( 614729 ) writes: on Monday April 04, 2011 @10:09PM (#35716322) Journal

Patents do not cover "an idea". They cover a specific solution, which for software is a specific algorithm
Reality doesn't mesh with your statement.
One-click, anyone?

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