Eben Moglen Explaining How Ridiculous Software Patents Are (and Covering GPLv3 Too)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 23, 2023

LAST month we started uploading (preserving, due to a growing need) some old talks from Eben Moglen. The reason some people still target him isn't Eben Moglen as a person. They want to squash the ideas of Eben Moglen. So let's just keep spreading them further.

Today's criticism of the patent system, with focus on software 'inventions', is about a decade and a half old. █

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