I disagree.. there will be a number of "obstacles" to be overcome on the way to a better and more open future. The trick is to focus on the goal not the obstacles..

If you're talking about these dumb f***ing patents that were pushed into law by the largest corporations, paying their politicians, it's a temporary thing.. and it does not exist as law in every country.. Every man that writes the law or is payed to vote a certain way on a law by a large corporation, AND every head of each large corporation was once a tiny baby in the hand of their mothers..

Wisdom is being part of the solution supporting ways to maintain open technologies, which I would GLADLY support Nokia spearheading and making a lot of legitimate money from. The Patents are plain dumb, just like Apple with their multi touch patents..

..talk about disabled-by-design technology..lol