PersonalWeb Threatens the Freedom of the Web, Warns the FSF

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2012-10-02 08:26:32 UTC
Modified: 2012-10-02 08:26:32 UTC

PersonalWeb

Summary: Pseudo-practising entity, PersonalWeb, threatens Free software development and the Web as a whole, claims the Free Software Foundation

GitHub has been gaining features recently, but with features implemented in software there is increased risk of stepping on software patents in the United States. One patent troll, PersonalWeb (with no products/services listed in its site), set up booby traps and now the whole Web is at risk, according to the FSF whose new statement says: "PersonalWeb's software patent suit against Github and others threatens the freedom of the Web. In order to make sure that the Web can remain a free and accessible space for everyone, we need to rid ourselves of all the patents that threaten its viability. We need to end software patents.

"In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, then a researcher at CERN, invented the World Wide Web as we know it. When he created it, he could have chosen a path wherein the Web would have remained under his control. Instead, he chose to share his work with the world. Thanks to that decision, the standards behind the Web are free to all. The ability to communicate and share freely via the Internet has become such an integral part of our lives that the U.N. has stated that access to the Web should be considered a human right." ⬆

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