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A spate of recent patent purchases indicate the strength of the market for mobile computing, including smart phones and tablets. For example, earlier this year a consortium led by Microsoft outbid Google for Nortel’s patent portfolio of roughly 6000 patents and applications.

The use of open source software (OSS) is approaching its third decade but there remain many misconceptions and uncertainties regarding the legal effect of OSS licenses. There are many reasons for this. The chief reason, no doubt, is that while at its heart the concept of OSS is simple, in practice the effects of OSS licensing are complex.