Patents 'pose equal threat to all software'

Posted by dave on Nov 4, 2004 3:05 AM
By The Age (subscription)
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Patents pose equal danger to all classes of software and in some cases the free and open source genre may have less to fear, the senior counsel of the Free Software Foundation says. The FSF is the principal organisational sponsor of the GNU Project which was launched by Richard M. Stallman in 1984 to develop a complete UNIX style operating system which is free software.

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