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Old 02-09-2010, 05:30 AM   #1
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LXer: Open source means freedom from 'anti-features'


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Proprietary vendors are using "anti-features", features that no user would ever want, to protect intellectual property, Benjamin “Mako” Hill, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told the linux.conf.au open source conference last month. But IP protection is only one of several reasons vendors introduce such features into their products.

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