:InfoWorld: Open Source Panelists Tout Business Models, Pan Patents
InfoWorld: Open Source Panelists Tout Business Models, Pan Patents Jan 20, 2005, 19 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2572 reads) (Other stories by Paul Krill)
"Dignitaries from the open source and venture capital communities serving on a panel Tuesday evening tossed around perspectives on building a business in open source, but essentially were in agreement about the potential negative effects of patents on open source projects.
"Leveraging open source for commercial purposes runs the gauntlet from selling support services for pure open source products to using code from open source projects in commercial ventures..."