Comments on: Abolishing Software Patents a Top Priority This Software Freedom Day http://techrights.org/2010/09/17/harms-of-software-patents-on-sfd/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Ycvddf http://techrights.org/2010/09/17/harms-of-software-patents-on-sfd/comment-page-1/#comment-130780 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:38:30 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=38941#comment-130780 2011…

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]]> By: twitter http://techrights.org/2010/09/17/harms-of-software-patents-on-sfd/comment-page-1/#comment-99980 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:57:55 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=38941#comment-99980 Free software is not more liable to patent attacks than non free software but publishers are using patents as a weapon against freedom. All software patents are method patents and the most obnoxious ones target visible program behavior. Of the referenced attacks above, not even the ancient gif patent required source code review, any application that worked with gif files was open to attack. The same can be said of one click shopping, and other business methods. Patents that target observable methods block free software from whole classes of activity. As Steve Jobs and MPEG-LA rudely asserted about Ogg Theora and Google’s codecs, most modern video features are under threat by people with deep pockets. They want you to be forced to formats that only work on systems they control. It is up to all of us to insist on our freedom and overturn the US patent system. Ultimately, software freedom issues are free press, speech and assembly issues. The best thing to do is to use free software and free formats to share with your friends. Everything else is more difficult anyway.

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