[Ilugc] Process patents
- From: bvijay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Vijay Kumar B)
- Date: Fri Mar 25 12:17:58 2005
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 09:33, Sivasankar Chander wrote:
Well, in this case (patents) they did the right thing for (maybe)
the wrong reasons. Perhaps if we did a better job informing people of
The CPI(M) realizes and understands the dangers of software patents.
A CPI(M) leader was quoted to have said that software patents are a
threat to open source software. I don't remember the website.
Quoting from
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/1281/
Free software guru(RMS) meets CPI-M leader
Quoting from
http://pd.cpim.org/2005/0130/01302005_snd.htm
Richard Stallman, the co-developer of the GNU-Linux operating system and
proponent of Free Software says, ?Software patents are patents which
cover software ideas, ideas which you would use in developing software.
That is what makes them a dangerous obstacle to all software
development.?
Vijay
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