Windows vs. Linux: The Patent Tax (Software Freedom Law Center) [LWN.net]

Windows vs. Linux: The Patent Tax (Software Freedom Law Center)

Posted Apr 17, 2007 17:07 UTC (Tue) by Zack (guest, #37335)
Parent article: Windows vs. Linux: The Patent Tax (Software Freedom Law Center)

The paper pretends to speak about software idea patents, but it's really a sales pitch for using open source software over microsoft's.

I thought the Software Freedom Law center was somehow affiliated with or related to the FSF, but I'm not too sure they would be all that approving of this paper.

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SFLC / FSF

Posted Apr 18, 2007 1:02 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

The SFLC is headed by Eben Moglen, who also serves as the FSF's head attorney. But they now work with a number of other groups as well, e.g. the Gnome Foundation, and they've worked to help get software patents overturned (e.g. the Blackboard patent).