Software Patent Activism

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From: Ashley Yakeley
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 00:00

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The _League for Programming Freedom_, which opposes software patents and
user interface copyrights, was reactivated a few months ago. They lost
their old domain name, they're now at <http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/>.

Is there an LPF mailing list? This is a really basic activist thing,
perhaps even more important than a web-page. Should we start one? Onelist
does them for free, of course, if people don't mind the little ads at the
bottom of their posts.

Patented Technique of the Week:
Structured naming, claimed by USP #5,842,018
<http://pto.dwsearch.com/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='5842018'.WKU.&OS=PN/5842018&RS=PN/5842018>
...and let no-one accuse the USPTO of brevity.

-- 
Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA

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From: AshleyB@halcyon.com (Ashley Yakeley)
Subject: Software Patent Activism
Date: 1999/02/28
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