Thanks a lot. You realize the surest way to talk to the US out of anything is to point out that all the reasonable people are doing it. Thanks to you the court will probably issue a decision finding that "holing up in a bunker with my guns, beer and Ann Coulter poster" is now a patentable business method.

I do agree that the article was very light on the actual details of either how exactly this will advance neuroscience, or how, specifically, Linux is being used for things like high-end graphics, which would be interesting to hear about. Actually, the whole article came off as a kind of a nice-but-fluffy OpenSource equivalent of a marketing spiel.