592" class="footnote">34</a>]</sup></p><p>Surveys and anecdotal evidence show that not only the vast
majority of open source programmers, but a majority
of <span class="emphasis"><em>all</em></span> programmers, think that software patents
should be abolished entirely.<sup>[<a id="idp8893504" href="#ftn.idp8893504" class="footnote">35</a>]</sup> Open source programmers tend to feel
particularly strongly about it, and may refuse to work on projects
that are too closely associated with the collection or enfor