RMS in the UK. "This provoked Stallman into an extended rant against the whole idea of
patenting software, and ended in him leaving the room to shout in the
corridor while Professor Bill Cornish, who was chairing, tried to resume
the discussion." Here is Stallman's homepage, and here is his must read distopian vision of the future that everyone used to laugh at, and that now, with the advent of the DMCA and things like CPRM, no one is laughing at anymore (disclaimer: he's no William Gibson or anything, but the writing style is not the point.) Dave's been doing some good digging into this area as well.
this is more fun to read than that legalese.
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- jim 4-07-2001 4:56 pm
this is more fun to read than that legalese.
- dave 4-07-2001 5:51 pm