Christopher Montgomery, founder of the Xiph.org Foundation, on why software patents suck and need reform:
“Patents are like every teenager carrying a hand gun,” he told me. Sooner or later, one of those guns could go off.
Don’t get too excited about Google open sourcing the VP8 video codec. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have patent issues. Many believe it is impossible to develop a modern codec without violating previous patents.
