Software ain't patentable, damn it!
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| So what we have now is the US government allowing companies to patent
| ideas, expressed in various software languages that they didn't invent,
| using concepts and techniques developed and refined in the open, to
| perform tasks that are obvious to one versed in the field. This is
| the antithesis of what patents were intended to protect.
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| So we all should applaud, and support, the activities of the Software
| Freedom Law Center in fighting the legal fiction of software patents.
| As this current case illustrates, software patents not only threaten
| and discourage the creation and use of free software but also
| commercial/non-free software as well.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/software_aint_patentable_damn_it
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