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November 2, 2012 11:00 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/PulQfJmxQoE/end-software-patent-wars-by-ma.html
End software patent wars by making it always legal to run code on a general-purpose computer - Richard Stallman
Writing in a special Wired series on patent reform, Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman proposes to limit the harms that patents do to computers, their users, and free/open development by passing a law that says that running software on a general purpose computer doesn't infringe patents. In Stallman's view, this would cut through a [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/PulQfJmxQoE/end-software-patent-wars-by-ma.html
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