The president of the FFII points out that Neelie Kroes says about open source: "What if we are sued if we infringe someone else IP if we use this?"
Given Kroes' past when it comes to patents, it's no shocking U-turn and the video above is good news by most judgments. There are also good things happening in the UK government at the moment. More on that soon. ⬆
If Debian has internal problems, then they need to be illuminated and then tackled, at the very least in order to ensure we do not end up with "Deadian"