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April 14, 2005

Open source developers step up anti-patent campaign

Open source developers step up anti-patent campaign

Ingrid Marson
ZDNet UK
April 14, 2005, 11:55 BST

Projects hope a taste of one possible future will spur people to action

Developers are using shock tactics to persuade the open source community to get involved in the campaign against software patents.

Over the last month various open source projects have replaced their Web home page with one that outlines the risk that the EU Directive on the Patentability of Computer Implemented Inventions, more commonly known as the Software Patent Directive, could pose to free software.

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Posted by James B. Gehrke on April 14, 2005 in Open Source |

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