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Is it time for a GeekPAC? (News.com)

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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