[Board] OpenSUSE Board Meeting - anti-patterns abound

[Jody Garnett]

Patent protection is one of the reasons to join a software foundation. In the case of OSGeo we are often hiding behind GRASS as a massive source of prior art. 

I have at watched at least one feature dropped from GeoTools due to patents. I am sure other projects have similar stories.
-- 
Jody Garnett


On Monday, 22 July 2013 at 2:00 PM, maplabs at light42.com wrote:

>   I trust that full force patent problems never cross *any* OSGeo projects..and these financial pressures.. 
> its just grisly to see ... 
> 
>   Anyway, sorry for the unhappy email, I try to be upbeat when I can.. I just had to tell someone ... 
> 
> --
> Brian M Hamlin
> OSGeo California Chapter
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