by Richard M. Stallman
Debian's decision to include Mono in the default installation, for the sake of Tomboy which is an application written in C#, leads the community in a risky direction. It is dangerous to depend on C#, so we need to discourage its use.
Why free software shouldn't depend on Mono or C#
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Donald Knuth: Mathematical Ideas, or Algorithms, Should Not Be Patented
Donald Knuth, distinguished computer scientist, recipient of the Turing Award, creator of the TeX computer typesetting system, and author of The Art of Computer Programming, which some call the Bible of computer programming, has submitted a letter [PDF] to the European Patent Office for submission to the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal considering the question of software patents and whether th
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Neelie Kroes, Microsoft, and Software Patent Tax (Video)
THE president of the FFII says that he "has just copied the European Commission's video where Neelie Kroes explains that Microsoft can tax competitors with patents." Here is a high-resolution version [MPEG] and the Ogg version below.
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US Breeds Software Patents
A look at some new articles about software patents in the United States
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Top Microsoft strategist highlights a change in IP policy
Phelps portrays Microsoft as desperately striving to adapt to a new world of aggressive enforcement of intellectual property (IP), but ends up suggesting a rising IP hegemon eager to shape a new world of such enforcement. It's not pretty.
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Knuth Tells Europe to Let Him “Innovate in Peace” (Without Software Patents)
"PROFESSOR DONALD KNUTH IS nobody to sneeze at. He is considered one of the world’s masters or authorities in algorithms and his letter opposing software patents in the United States is rather famous. A short while ago Knuth was kind enough to worry for Europeans too.
Read more »Analysts Cartel: Gartner is Fan of MS Software Patents, Anti-Linux Lenovo Analyst is a Vista Man
“Analysts sell out - that’s their business model… But they are very concerned that they never look like they are selling out, so that makes them very prickly to work with.” - Microsoft, internal document [PDF]. A look at the proximity between GNU/Linux-hostile analysts and the company which feeds them
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Intellectual Fallacy — A Libertarian Critique
"In this study, Kevin Carson reviews libertarian perspectives on “intellectual property”; the ethics of the practice itself and the harms resulting from it. He finds that IP is an artificial, rather than natural, property right; creating scarcity rather than managing it.
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EU commission takes another shot at software patents
"After their failure to introduce software patents in Europe directly through two directives, then through the community patent and then finally through the «European Patent Litigation Agreement» (EPLA), the European Commission has come up with a new way to legalize software patents: the «United Patent Litigation System» (UPLS)..."
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Red Hat Makes its Position Patent
Six months ago I noted that the European Patent Office had embarked upon a fairly abstruse process:
Read more »Software Patents Want to Enter Europe from the Back Door
New signs that attempts are being made to legalise software patent without ever debating the subject
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Software patents are dangerous
"After a quite interesting month, in which I attended two very interesting lectures (Carlos Guerreiro and Richard Stallman lectures) and a very good fortnight in London I wasn’t sure what to talk about in this post. However, I liked so much an example that Richard Stallman told us talking about software patents that I needed to say some words..."
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IBM’s Missed Opportunity to Help Free Software
It's high time that people asked IBM to abolish software patents
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Obama and Free Software
"One of the more interesting aspects of the modern knowledge society is the free software movement. The most famous and influential leader of this movement is Richard M. Stallman (RMS). Richard recognized the value of a new model for software development and the various risks to that model.
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UK-IPO Approves Software Patent as Microsoft and its Lobbies Pressure for Software Patents in EU
The UK-IPO is again betraying its principles and lobbying activity from Microsoft deserves at least part of the blame for what happens in Europe
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