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Talking Software Patents with a Politician?

Posted by Cliff on from the communication-with-a-different-species dept.

agent dero asks: "I'm currently trying to land an hour or two of my local representative to the House of Representatives so I can talk about software patents, amongst other things. I'm looking for the best way to describe the pitfalls of Software Patents to somebody who hasn't the slightest clue what Open Source is, let alone how software patents will hurt it. How can a computer geek relate the evil in patenting algorithms to a non-computer geek to where it will have an effective impact?"

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  1. Re:The Property by stinerman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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