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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. Re:Whereas... by killjoe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mmm. Interesting. DDT kill mosquitos. Deny people DDT and people will all be bitten by mosquitos and get malaria.

    Why?

    Because there is no other method of killing mosquitos right? DDT is the only thing in the world that can prevent widespread malaria.

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    evil is as evil does
  2. Re:Whereas... by RiffRafff · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "Killing off entire generations of mosquitos with
    cheap insecticides like DDT could save hundreds of
    thousands of lives each year. Unfortunately donor
    nations, such as the U.S., tend to balk at paying
    for DDT, which is banned in the U.S. Thus, lives
    are lost."

    ...as opposed to them and their children and their children's children dying slow, lingering deaths from cancer.

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    "I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years." -- Warren Zevon