[Cc-bizcom] RMS on SW patents

Marshall W Van Alstyne marshall at MIT.EDU
Sat Sep 11 22:19:38 EDT 2004


There's a newsworthy post from Slashdot on Stallman's suggestions for dealing
with SW patents:

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 11, @07:11PM
from the by-virtue-of-virtue dept.
rimberg writes "Richard M. Stallman has a article on NewsForge talking about
ways to fight software patents. It mentions the Public Patent Foundation (and
why it's a good idea), but argues that fighting patents one by one will never
eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes
will eliminate malaria." (Newsforge, like Slashdot, is part of OSTG.) 

The article is here: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/09/09/1612239



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