eWeek - Patents and the Shadow of Darkness

["David Webber \(XML\)" <david@drrw.info>]

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1775150,00.asp

Is OASIS improving this situation - or merely sailing blindly
into deeper darkness itself - pulled in by these same black-hole
forces, and once there, will it be ever able to extricate itself,
or shed a light out of the tunnel for others?

Some could say that the mere mission of OASIS is by
its very nature diametrically opposed to the notion of
IPR in the first place - and more akin to Jeffersons 
original notion of lighting ones candle and passing of
the flame to increase the benfit to all.

DW