A look back at old documents reveals prophetic words .
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Looking At Microsoft's Fat Patents Through Bilski Glasses
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Yesterday, Microsoft attacked free software and GNU/Linux users with software patent claims against the Tom Tom Navigator and its implementation of the FAT file system. But do they have a sword or a wet rag?
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The End of Software Patents?
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Further developments in Bilski may herald a new age; Denmark lays off many patent examiners amid sanity redux
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Ctrl-Z: a return to the Supreme Court's software patent ban?
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"With the US Patent Office and courts cracking down on software patents, Ars takes a close look at the Supreme Court's software patent decisions. Yes, the highest court in the land really did say that algorithms can't be patented. And in spite of the fact that their rulings have been functionally ignored for almost two decades, the tide may be about to turn..."
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Novell Collects Software Patents While Apple Attacks Linux with Patents
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Novell is still pursuing intellectual monopolies and Apple threatens to use them to attack Linux-based products from Palm
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Transcript of an interview with RMS for Radio New Zealand, conducted by Kim Hill on August 9, 2008
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"...They base it on practical values only and they take for granted that proprietary software subjugating users is legitimate; whereas I say, and we in the Free Software movement say, that users are entitled to freedom and that proprietary software is a social problem and we're aiming to correct that problem, put an end to that problem..."
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[FSF] Happy GNU Year!
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"Happy GNU year to all free software supporters! If you haven't already joined the Free Software Foundation as a card-carrying member, now is a great time. Take a look at the new ultra-slim credit card-sized FSF membership cards -- the first batch is shipping out today. Of course, member number zero had to be for our founder and president Richard Stallman..."
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The End of an Era (SCO), The Beginning of Another (Microsoft & Patents)
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Weakening of software patents this year and lots of news from the US, the UK, and the EU
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2008-2009 Petition to stop software patents in Europe
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"We have signed the Stop Software Patents .eu petition to support their view on serious restrains current software patent legislations cause..."
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Petition demands effective ban of software patents in Europe
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"Berlin, 12 December 2008 - Backed by the FFII and other organisations, software developers launch a petition in 28 languages to stop software patents and protect European innovators. The petition asks for legislative clarifications to clear out the legal uncertainty and imbalances created by software patents..."
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The Patent System is Broken.. and How NOT to Fix It
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OIN interviews, announcement of "Linux Defenders" and general criticism of this patent strategy
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Memo to IBM: Enough with Software Patents, Please
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Extensive look at some of the latest software patents news and IBM's missed opportunity to end Microsoft's FUD
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Analysis on balance:Standardisation and Patents
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Following up on the "IPR in ICT Standardisation" Workshop two weeks ago in Brussels, FSFE president Georg Greve analysed the conflicts between patents and standards. The resulting is paper about the most harmful effects of patents on standards, the effectiveness of current remedies, and potential future remedies.
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Petition to stop software patents in Europe
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Our petition aims to unify the voices of concerned Europeans, associations and companies, and calls on our politicians in Europe to stop patents on software with legislative clarifications.
Read more »Why European software patents are legally invalid
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In the 1990s, the European Patent Office created a bizarre interpretation whereby "as such" is a reference to "as programs for computers", and thus the exclusion can be completely ignored if the patent application uses a name other than "programs for computers" for the claimed idea.
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