Danny Fröberg
CEO Forest Star Networks

To allow the Council's proposal to go through would cause a nightmare for startup as well as established innovators in the VoIP industry when they are suddenly faced with the prospect of having to arm themselves to the teeth with patent portfolios to battle the old telecommunications and network giants. The costs alone would effectively eliminate any attempt to enter this and many similar markets, venture capitalists and share holders alike would most likely find the additional costs of doing business unacceptable. The *only* things software patents brings are monopolies and costs, period.