Support the ESP Coalition
November 6th, 2007 by Maddog
The U.S. patent situation is a mess, and much of that is because of the
oxymoron known as software patents. Now a group led by Ben Klemens, author
of "Math You Can't Use: Patents, Copyright, and Software", wants to clean
things up by getting rid of software patents altogether. The End Software
Patents (ESP) coalition, plans to embark on a long legal campaign, as
reported by Bruce Byfield in "Software patent abolition campaign will
launch next month":
The campaign currently has seed funding of a quarter million
dollars from sources those associated with the group won't
disclose, and hopes to augment that with donations from
individuals and companies for a struggle that, to judge by
the usual amount of time it takes to push major changes
through the US Supreme Court, could take five years or more
to complete.
Read the complete post at:
http://www.infoweapons.com/blog/?p=83
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