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Contributed by Chad Brandt
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Tuesday, 10 August 2004
Conventional wisdom among free software and open source developers has long warned that software patents could corrupt and disrupt good software projects.The GPL mentions such a risk, for example. While only a few patents have actually stopped the development of some software (Unisys' GIF patent, the patented LZW algorithm, and Fraunhofer's MP3 patent), the risks involved in developing software in a patent-haunted world remained unclear
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