Lately many IT companies have been suing competitors for using their patents. Furthermore patent trolls (companies with the business model of buying patents and suing companies -- congratulations!) have been accreting and have been attacking companies.
Here some references on that:
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/66807
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com
http://www.slideshare.net/MissionFuture/jan-wildeboer-open-source-presentation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open_source_software
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