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Open Source Initiative, Free Software Foundation Unite Against Software Patents
WebMink writes "In rare joint move, the OSI and FSF have joined with Eben Moglen's Software Freedom Law Center to file a U.S. Supreme Court briefing in the CLS vs Alice case. The brief asserts the basic arguments that processes are not patentable if they are implemented solely through computer software, and that the best test for whether a software-implemented invention is solely implemented through software is whether special apparatus or the transformation of matter have been presented as part of the claims (the 'machine or transformation' test). They assert that finding software-only inventions unpatentable will not imperil the pace of software innovation, citing the overwhelming success of open source in the software industry as proof."
Your ad-hominem issues with Stallman have no bearing on his academic achievements and the work he has done for F/"LOSS", so your comment loses relevance entirely.
Just because the man sticks up for his values which (when people aren't taking low hanging fruit and complaining about his physical behavior) happen to be factually correct, doesn't mean that he's too divisive. It means the FOSS community people are compromising their values and giving in to the opposite of their values.