We think it's a serious problem; we don't have a solution to recommend. We regard today's draft as simply serving notice that this is a problem that can no longer be ignored.

The right to speak PGP is the right to speak Navajo.

The big boys, corporations and governments, have far more reason to be interested and concerned this time.

Patents which conserve an edge in a rapidly changing market, may have uses for companies such as IBM. But patents which inhibit your customer's ability to achieve their own goals or to contribute to jointly build technology or community build technology are not useful to a company such as IBM wishes to be.

IBM has decided that being a company committed to open standards, open document formats and free software means ultimately reassessing the patent process and its role in your relationship to your customers,

(Open-source firms) are engaging in substantial, active, prosperous business ? making money for their shareholders and helping investors,