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Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's intellectual property counsel, indicated that Microsoft has finally seen the open-source light in a recent interview with CNET. Demonstrating that Microsoft has finally learned that it can't fight open-source gravity, Gutierrez suggests, "Today, but increasingly in the future, we are all going to be 'mixed source'," meaning Microsoft

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10070008-16.html?p... 

Interesting look into the reason why jazz festivals can be patented

http://shvoong.blogspot.com/2008/03/jazz-festivals-p... 

there are surprisingly many reasons an invention should not be patented

http://shvoong.blogspot.com/2008/02/top-five-reasons... 

excessively ambitious restaurants try to claim what we have taken for granted

http://shvoong.blogspot.com/2008/02/restaurants-figh... 

Scripter extraordinaire Timeless Prototype has a long analysis about intellectual property and patents in Second Life. In the end he determines that some basic functions are just too important to patent.