On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 02:17:22PM +1000, James Purser wrote: > Okay I'm looking for any local Open Source projects that have been killed > off by software patents. I would like to include something about this in > the next podcast so if anyone knows of any such projects drop me a line. The best example I can think of is rproxy: http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;839160262;fp;512;fpid;968099126 http://rproxy.samba.org/ There were better statements about the problems at that second URL, but they appear to have been taken down. Perhaps the problem has been negotiated to a resolution. It's still a decent case study of the potential problems, though, even if it's no longer a really active case. - Matt
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