Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 15497
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2/28    http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/17741.html
        Microsoft claims to have invented web style sheets.  What next?
        Microsoft tries to patent the web?
        \_ http://lpf.ai.mit.edu if you think software patents suck.
                (or if you have no idea and want to learn why they suck)
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Software Patents: * Recent 10 News: + 29 Jan 2004: Microsoft seeks Word and XML-related patents + 28 Jan 2004: Article about Lemelson machine vision patents + 20 Jan 2004: IBM Seeks Patent For Separating Business, Web Code + 15 Jan 2004: Domain registrars sued over URL patent + 15 Dec 2003: CD-burning software prompts patent suit + 11 Dec 2003: Banning software patents: a call to action * 11 Unisys/CompuServe GIF Controversy 12 Software Licenses: a few links about how some software licenses threaten programming freedom. The 22 Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure is an active European site that opposes software patents. Excerpt from Article 1 of the 23 Unites States Constitution: Section 8. To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; Against Software Patents The League for Programming Freedom February 28, 1991 Software patents threaten to devastate America's computer industry. Patents granted in the past decade are now being used to attackcompanies such as the Lotus Development Corporation for selling programs that they have independently developed. Soon new companies will often be barred from the software arena--most major programs will require licenses for dozens of patents, and this will make them infeasible. This problem has only one solution: software patents must be eliminated.