"This page documents companies whose main business is not free software, but who try to claim to represent free software so they can push a pro-software-patent agenda..."
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GNU/Zealand 09 Tour Schedule
"Richard Stallman is making a return visit to New Zealand in 2009, following his successful 2008 tour to promote free software and the FSF. This page lists his itinerary as of 29 September 2009, and will be updated as events are confirmed..."
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End Software Patents: FSF Amicus Curiae Brief
"The Free Software Foundation (“Foundation”), founded in October 1985, pioneered a movement of information exchange that initially had significant impact on software development practices, but later also inspired changes in broader fields of great public benefit [...] As an important part of this worldwide free software movement, the Foundation has been both an inspiration for, and a close obs
Read more »FSF files brief in Bilski case calling on the Supreme Court to eliminate software patents
"BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Friday, October 2, 2009 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today submitted an amicus curiae brief calling on the Supreme Court to affirm that software ideas are not patentable.
Read more »Software Freedom Law Center Files Brief with Supreme Court Arguing Software Cannot Be Patented
"Today the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), provider of pro-bono legal services to non-profit developers and distributors of free software, filed a brief with the United States Supreme Court arguing that software standing alone cannot constitutionally be patented..."
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Mono and Moblin as the Microsoft-approved “Open Source Solution”
Is "Open Source" simply where Free software meets Microsoft's software patents and other "compromises"? In some cases, it sure seems like a terminological fit
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Arguments For Patents for Business Methods and Software-Implemented Inventions
I asked if it would be possible for the law firm of Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks to write an article defending business methods and software patents for Groklaw, and they were nice enough to agree to do it.
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Microsoft Abuse with Software Patents Carries on
The latest analyses and moves from Microsoft, which increasingly relies on software patents in its eternal battle against Free software
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Patently Opaque: What were those 22 "open source" patents?
There have been many claims over the purchase of 22 patents by the Open Invention Network. Some have lauded the cunning of OIN in snatching the patents away from patent trolls. Others suggest the OIN have acquired useful defensive patents. The trouble is that the process of acquiring the patents is relatively opaque.
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Richard Stallman on Software Patents
"In this insightful discussion, international Free Software advocate Richard Stallman (RMS) will argue that software patents seriously and significantly obstruct software development..."
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Likewise: Microsoft Embraces and Extends Samba with Software Patents?
A partly Microsoft-derived entity harms Samba by taking its work and making it more Microsoft obedient
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Open Invention Network starts buying patents
The Open Invention Network (OIN) today announced that it was starting a new programme to acquire patents from "entrepreneurial inventors".
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Microsoft Patent Aggression Continues against Free Software
There has been so much talk in the last two weeks that Microsoft has changed with regard to its patent policy toward Free Software. We fool ourselves if we trust any of the window-dressing that Microsoft has put forward to convince us that we can trust them in this regard.
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Microsoft's Empty Promise
FSF: Last week, Microsoft extended the terms of their Community Promise to implementations of the ECMA 334 and 335 standards. You might think this means it's safe to write your software in C#. However, this promise is full of loopholes, and it's nowhere near enough to make C# safe.
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Considerations on Patents that Read on Language Infrastructure
The software freedom community should minimize its use of programming language infrastructure that comes primarily from anti-software-freedom companies, notwithstanding FaiF (Free as in Freedom) implementations.
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