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ESP launches en.swpat.org: A Wiki for Anti-Software Patent Campaigns
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by
Matt Lee
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published
May 04, 2009
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last modified
May 04, 2009 02:59 PM
End Software Patents today launched en.swpat.org, a wiki to document the case against software patents. Over 100 articles have already been started to give an idea of the scope and structure of the wiki.
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FSF News
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Software Patents
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by
John Sullivan
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published
Oct 18, 2007
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Campaigns
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Software patents hold back progress -- even in healthcare
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by
Donald Robertson
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published
Jun 22, 2020
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last modified
Jul 01, 2020 01:20 PM
Lifesaving technology should belong to everyone, but the United States
Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) is working day and night to restrict
access, even during a global pandemic.
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Licensing
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This American Life -- when patents attack!
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by
Matt Lee
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last modified
Jan 23, 2012 05:21 PM
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Campaigns
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You can’t make a good software idea patent
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by
Joshua Gay
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last modified
Nov 14, 2013 12:37 PM
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2013
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spring
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The patent threat from Apple
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by
Zak Rogoff
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last modified
Jan 11, 2013 10:37 AM
Steve Jobs went on record vowing to "destroy" Android because he felt Apple deserved an exclusive right to make touch-based smartphones. Jobs obviously did not have the best interest of smartphone users in mind, seeking to restrict options to his proprietary and restrictive devices. But are threats like this credible? How could Apple get rid of Android?
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FSF responds to Oracle v. Google and the threat of software patents
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by
Brett Smith
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Sep 08, 2010
As you likely heard on any number of news sites, Oracle has filed suit
against Google, claiming that Android infringes some of its Java-related copyrights and patents.
Too little information is available
about the copyright infringement claim to say much about it yet; we
expect we'll learn more as the case proceeds. But nobody deserves to
be the victim of software patent aggression, and Oracle is wrong to
use its patents to attack Android.
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Clearing Landmines by Peter Brown
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by
Matt Lee
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Dec 07, 2007
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last modified
Aug 20, 2008 12:53 PM
For the past twenty-two years the Free Software Foundation has had the mission to promote, preserve, and protect the freedoms to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute modified computer software, and to defend the rights of all free software users.
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Spring 2008 Bulletin
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Clearing Landmines by Peter Brown
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by
Matt Lee
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Dec 07, 2007
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last modified
Dec 20, 2007 05:57 PM
For the past twenty-two years the Free Software Foundation has had the mission to promote, preserve, and protect the freedoms to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute modified computer software, and to defend the rights of all free software users.
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Fall 2007 Bulletin
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Helping out This American Life—with an Ogg copy of the show
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by
Brett Smith
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Aug 01, 2011
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last modified
Aug 24, 2011 10:23 AM
Last week, we asked you all to write to This American Life to thank
them for their episode about software patents, "When Patents
Attack!", and ask them to make it available in Ogg Vorbis format.
We thought it would also be helpful to offer them a copy of the show
that's already been converted to Ogg Vorbis; with this, the only
work they have to do is copy that file and post it on their own
servers. Here's the text of the letter we sent them.
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