Patents

Software Patents

Richard Stallman likens software patents to a minefield for developers. You never know when you could step on one.

They only discourage independent development while further empowering large corporate entities that have bundles of patents to threaten with.

News: Microsoft's patent threats baseless.

GNU Audio material

Public Patent Foundation

No Software Patents

NoSoftwarePatents campaign

Mueller's Blog on Software Patents

Bugs in the political system

Here's a book on the software patent struggle that you can download for free at http://www.no-lobbyists-as-such.com/index.html

http://fsfe.org/transcripts

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