Was reading a few articles about software patents. I am pretty sure that more people than not are NOT AWARE of what could be the implications of software patents becoming legal. So here it is, an image from typo3.org which more or less summarises it.
Imagine paying royalty to someone just for using a progress bar or a tabbed dialog! yuck! It sucks.
Here are a couple of links for more information on software patents. No prizes for discovering that these links are among the first few google results for “software patents”:
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