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Revision as of 08:16, 6 November 2012
Another approach to ending the problems of software patents would be a law, as suggested by Richard Stallman, to say "that developing, distributing, or running a program on generally used computing hardware does not constitute patent infringement."[1]
US surgeon's precedent
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/287
Related pages on ESP Wiki
- Choosing words to use in legal proposals
- Free software exception - a narrower suggestion, but with many implementation problems
External links
- Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them, Nov 2012, Richard Stallman
References