His conclusion is contrary to virtually everything I've seen in my 17 year history of commercial free/open source solutions. I believe that the effect of open source on the proprietary vendors is a force 1,000 times more powerful than the force of proprietary principles on the open source community.

Any line of code I write could in fact trip across a patent I never even knew existed, and that's a problem for innovation, and it's a problem for open source,

The stakes are very high in how we construct the future of the Internet, ... Do we want a winner-takes-all scenario for whichever company ultimately creates that particular piece of intellectual property that maximizes interoperability (across systems) or do we want to create a commons?

The stakes are very high in how we construct the future of the Internet. Do we want a winner-takes-all scenario for whichever company ultimately creates that particular piece of intellectual property that maximizes interoperability (across systems) or do we want to create a commons?

We will provide software to get Internet devices - thin servers, point of sale terminals, digital set-top boxes - up and running with Linux.

But looking for the effect of proprietary software on the open source community is like trying to measure the gravitational effect of the earth on the orbit of the Sun.

To build an architecture of trust, it is better to be open than to seem open and better to be trustworthy than to seem trustworthy.

This represents our entrance into the Internet appliance or 'post-PC device' market. These tools will help developers create applications for things like point-of-sale terminals, digital jukeboxes, and even car stereos,

When the people are invested with the power to control their own destiny, they take an interest.

Overall, I am encouraged by what I am seeing.