Is it time for a GeekPAC? (News.com)
[Posted November 25, 2002 by ris]
News.com
covers the
efforts underway to resuscitate the dormant League for Programming
Freedom (LPF). "
In its heyday, the LPF focused on software patents
and user interface copyright, including the Lotus v. Borland lawsuit over
the design of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet. Software patents are as
problematic for today's programmers as they were a decade ago, but new
threats such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) have since
emerged."
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