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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:Obscure Gauntlet video-game reference by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    RMS needs food...badly!

  2. Re:It's very easy, actually. by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 0, Troll
    BTW if you live in America you live in a REPUBLIC, if we lived in a democracy we would directly elect the president.
    I live in America, but not in a republic. Canada (which is in America, by the way) is a -spit- monarchy.

    You should get your facts straight.

    Cuba and China are republics, too, but unlike the USA, they don't have democracy.

    A republic can be democratic, or not.