The Economist takes up the issue of network services and autonomy!
"We should legislate that developing, distributing, or running a program on generally used computing hardware does not constitute patent infringement."
Interesting opinion article in favor of the LGPL for QT.
"The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced a new initiative on Tuesday to seek reform of the United States patent system. But conspicuously missing from the list is the most direct and obvious way to solve the problem: exclude software from patent protection altogether."