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* [http://progfree.org/Newsletter/programming.freedom.5.html#viewpoint Viewpoint: Software Patents - Boom or Bane?], June 1, 1992, published in Computerworld (p.33) | * [http://progfree.org/Newsletter/programming.freedom.5.html#viewpoint Viewpoint: Software Patents - Boom or Bane?], June 1, 1992, published in Computerworld (p.33) |
Latest revision as of 20:31, 27 February 2014
Richard Stallman is a well known campaigner against software patents. He founded the Free Software Foundation in 1985 and the League for Programming Freedom in 1989.
Contents
Related pages on ESP Wiki
- Shielding software from litigation - a legislative proposal by Stallman, an alternative to the exclusion approach
- Statements from developers
Articles
EU software patents directive
- Soft sell, August 2nd 2005, just after the rejection by the European Parliament
- Patent Absurdity, June 23rd 2005
- That's fighting talk, with Nick Hill, 2003, pubished in The Guardian
- http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/savingeurope.html
- http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,1540984,00.html
General and other topics
- Patent Law Is, At Best, Not Worth Keeping, 2013, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal
- Nokia's patent announcement next to nothing, May 2005 (about the patent promises of IBM, Sun, and Nokia)
- Viewpoint: Software Patents - Boom or Bane?, June 1, 1992, published in Computerworld (p.33)
- http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.html
- http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/software-literary-patents.html
- http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/patent-reform-is-not-enough.html
- http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/trivial-patent.html
- Stallman on the Harm of Patents, Tim O'Reilly discussion with Stallman, March 2000
- 2000 Interview for by J.S. Kelly
- Amazon Letter from RMS to Tim O'Reilly, 11 Mar 2000
- Richard Stallman on Software Patents 2005-05-18 (2005), Canada
Transcripts
- http://www.ifso.ie/documents/rms-2004-05-24.html (Stallman discusses How to avoid software patents)
- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/stallman-patents.html
- http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-mec-india.html