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NoSoftwarePatents.com Industry Campaign Launches

Posted by timothy on from the one-plus-one-is-mine-all-mine dept.

Halo1 writes "The NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign has officially launched today. It has industry support from 1&1, Red Hat and MySQL AB. The website is already available in 12 EU languages (more to be added soon), and contains a ton of information about the dangers of software patents, including the myths that surround them. Hopefully, more large companies will join this campaign in the future."

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  1. The History of Software Patents by Mstrgeek · · Score: 4, Informative
    This is a great site dealing with The History of Software Patents

    http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/history.html

    It has some great information hope you enjoy it and find it to be a help in supporting the need for software patents

    --
    Chris Williams clw7500nc@gmail.com
  2. Money by Muda69 · · Score: 0, Informative

    This far-fetched idea of no software patents will never fly because of one reason, money. Large software development houses derive a large percentage of their income from royalties from intellectually-based patents. That's the way the system works and we don't need to change it.