The "First Ever Think Tank Report on the Future of Commercial Open Source"

Posted Mar 1, 2006 17:02 UTC (Wed) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989)
Parent article: The "First Ever Think Tank Report on the Future of Commercial Open Source"

An excellent read.
Binary-only drivers didn't appear to crop up, at a casual glance.
I did see this, though, and wished for more elaboration:

Group #5 question: Imagine it is the year 2010, what were the key issues surrounding commercial open source licensing over the past 5 years? How has the community of commercial open source providers and
their customers resolved these issues?
...
-- By 2010, the patent issue was solved. The "patent trolls" overreached. This caused a reduction in the value of software licenses