adam wrote:

We've warned you for a decade. Now the monster has finally arrived: attacks against Open Source developers by patent holders, big and small. One is a lawsuit against Red Hat for the use of the principle of Object Relational Mapping used in Hibernate, a popular component of enterprise Java applications everywhere. The other attack is on an individual Open Source developer for his model railroad software.

Just an aside - I was thinking the other day that no one (that I know of) patents or copyrights recipes, and everyone benefits from learning new ways to cook, and I started thinking it would be nice if code would have developed like cooking did in its early days. SIGH. And cooking is STILL profitable....

RE: The Monster Arrives: Software Patent Lawsuits Against Open Source Developers