(FOSS) Intellectual property in the era of open source

Note that all this is from a VC...!

Intellectual property in the era of open source

In fact, open source can lead inventors, engineers, architects and business strategists to focus on areas where software is not a commodity.

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It's as if open source applies evolutionary pressure to business plans, in the Darwinian sense. Because open source eliminates whole categories of obvious commodity software plays, we in the investment community see fewer "better mousetrap" propositions that retool commodity categories and more focused and innovative plans for unserved markets.