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RMS On How To Fight Software Patents

Posted by timothy on 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.)

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  1. Geek Analogy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    To make a part of the castle safe, you've got to do more than kill the monsters as they appear -- you have to wipe out the generator that produces them.

    But you'd get a lot more experience points if you leave the generator running and ambush the monsters one-by-one as they emerge.

    And this Stallman guy thinks he's a geek. Sheesh!