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,

Overall, I am encouraged by what I am seeing.

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.

Apple true believers are going to hammer this a thousand different ways on the details, but it caught the essence of Jobs and Gates,

The media dubbed me Dirty Harry, for my antics, I guess, if you will,

I will be visible. They will know what's going on in their community,