http://techrights.org/2008/04/20/rand-versus-foss/ 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 http://techrights.org/2008/04/20/rand-versus-foss/comment-page-1/#comment-21671 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:58:41 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/04/20/rand-versus-foss/#comment-21671 I believe the patent movement is very dangerous indeed. The promotors are mainly multinational corporations, who wants only their products on the market (monopoly). It is dangerous even for programmers who do not distribute their programs (ie software for in-house needs). I made a program fo reading DBF files in C (for Windows), for my work needs. I didn’t distribute the program. But if one company have patents for DBF files, they surely will want me to pay them a lot of money, even I do not use a single piece of code from them. This is how dangerous are patents: one could not program even for his/her own needs.

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