The Danger of Software Patents
by
Matt Lee
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Published on
Feb 25, 2009 05:05 PM
Paris, France. Epitech, 24, rue Pasteur, 94270 Le Kremlin Bicetre (closest Metro stations: Place d'Italie and Kremlin-Bicetre). Richard Stallman will explain how software patents obstruct software development. Software patents are patents that cover software ideas. They restrict the development of software, so that every design decision brings a risk of getting sued. Patents in other fields restrict factories, but software patents restrict every computer user. Economic research shows that they even retard progress.
| When |
Mar 02, 2009
from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM |
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| Where | Paris, France |
| Contact Name | j.ballet (at) freelab.epitech.eu |