NewsForge | OASIS: Meaningful open standards or mirage?

NewsForge | OASIS: Meaningful open standards or mirage?: "'Companies like IBM, Microsoft and others benefit from software patents by stopping the free market of ideas from operating in the realm of digital inventions,' Hiser continued. 'Their efforts at creating and protecting their patent portfolios is an old-world approach to keeping individuals and small groups of people from exploiting their own brain power and digital resources and competing effectively. It's a cynical attitude which, luckily, has little chance of surviving when small groups continue to show superior invention and business service delivery around collaborative works.'"