Florian Mueller Software Quotations

In open-source software (OSS), Europe is at the forefront,

Someone who uses a patent against a piece of software will usually be a competitor and won't care about the right to distribute that particular program himself.

Loving open source and lobbying for software patents simply doesn't mix.

Also, there are economic studies which show that Europe has a trade deficit in software versus the U.S. in the tens of billions of dollars per year, so there is obviously some hope over here to become a little more independent from a few large and mostly American vendors.