Damjan Lampret is the founder of OpenCores.org, which is a consortium of developers who are trying to apply the open source concept to hardware. Hmm. Nothing inherently wrong with the concept, but this Wired article suggests that hardware innovations are more likely than software innovations to be subject to existing patents. Still, I like the argument raised by Bruce Perens of Open Source Definition, who contends that the process of working around a patent sometimes leads to new technologies.

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