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Patent Law Ruling Threatens Free and Open Source Software

Posted by Jeff | Filed under Politiks(tm), Techie Stuff

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked the United States Supreme Court to overturn a dangerous patent law ruling that could pose a serious threat to Free and Open Source Software projects.

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Permalink | August 25th, 2006

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