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Proprietary Software Does Not Scale
Wow, good point. 'The whole point about cloud computing is that it has to be effectively infinite - the more people want, the more they get. You can't do that with software that requires some kind of licensing payment, unless it's flat-fee.'
the saga of PostgreSQL's ARC Algorithm and IBM's patent
a good case-study of how software patents can affect an open source project. Note: they felt asking IBM for a patent license was too risky! Happily, it seems they've managed to rewrite code as non-infringing in this case.
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