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Originally Posted by
Jan Olieslagers 
... Now if commercial companies, offering good service at prices acceptable to many, are pestered out of economically viable operation, won't this only strengthen the demand for fully free and open services?
It requires a very generous person to provide a service for free if they must licence the underlying technology!
Yes, sure, of course. But I always understood patents exist to protect inventor's commercial interests against competitors, so they can't be applied against non-commercial offer? A bit like Microsoft can't sue Linux, though they'd surely like to?