<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stephen Bosch</b> <<a href="mailto:posting@vodacomm.ca">posting@vodacomm.ca</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">The price of open source is that the commercial outfits are free to rip<br>off ideas without paying for them.
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<div>And then patent those ideas and call them their own, knowing full well open source developers can't hire the attorneys necessary to fight them in court.</div>
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<div>Or at least in the US...</div><br> </div>