Comments on: The Free Software Foundation Needs Your Help http://techrights.org/2006/12/16/fsf-appeal/ 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: Shane Coyle http://techrights.org/2006/12/16/fsf-appeal/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Sun, 17 Dec 2006 02:57:42 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/16/fsf-appeal/#comment-149 GO SFLC!

The absolutely amazingly funny thing about this amicus briefing, which is on Microsoft’s behalf in this particular case, is also a direct assault on ALL software patents.
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Groklaw coverage: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061215131844340

Eben Moglen Executive Director of SFLC: “The Supreme Court has consistently ruled that algorithms and mathematics cannot be patented. Since software is expressed as mathematical algorithms, it should not be patentable.”
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