Re: [Fsfe-uk] Stalls at Marxism 2003

[Timothy Baldwin]

On Wednesday 02 Jul 2003 2:50 pm, Timothy Baldwin wrote:

> I will write a draft covering the following points:
>
> 1. Patents are a form of interlectual property
> 2. Software patents are accumalate power in the hands of big business
> 3. Software patents infringe the freedom to write comuputer software.
> 4. Software patents are usually bariers to free software devlopment.

Heres my draft petition text:

Association For Free Software 
 
We the undersigned demand that software patents should be abolished /  not 
established. Software patents grant ownership of techniques used in writing 
computer software, which make it illegal to use such techniques without the 
permission of the patent holder. Given that the means of writing computer 
software are affordable, this amounts to a serious attack on the personal 
freedom to write computer software.Furthermore, due to the large number of 
techniques used in the writing any one program, it is not possible for a 
individual or organisation to ensure that it does not use any patentable 
techniques, thus putting them at risk of being sued, especially by large 
business which hold a lot of patents. 
 



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