FSF: Save the Web from software patents

The Web belongs to everyone...

But now and then an individual, a nation, or a company decides that
this should not be the case. Today that company is PersonalWeb, a shell
company from the Eastern District of Texas, which has set out on a
course of patent litigation against some of the largest Internet
companies in an attempt to claim the Web as their own. PersonalWeb's
software patent suit against Github and others threatens the freedom of
the Web. In order to make sure that the Web can remain a free and
accessible space for everyone, we need to rid ourselves of all the
patents that threaten its viability.

We need to end software patents, and we need your help!

  * Read the full story about PersonalWeb
    <http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/save-the-web-from-soft...>.
  * Please get your friends and family to join our mailing list
    <https://crm.fsf.org/civicrm/profile/create?gid=130&re...> to stay
    up-to-date with our campaign to end software patents
    <http://en.swpat.org/>.
  * Help stop software patents from being forced onto Europe by the
    European Patent Office by joining April's action against software
    patents
    <http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/stop-software-patents-...>.
  * Check out our film on the preposterous state of the patent system.
    _Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system_
    <http://patentabsurdity.com/>.
  * Support our future work and help us put an end to software patents
    by making a donation <https://my.fsf.org/donate/> to the FSF, or
    even better, becoming a member <https://www.fsf.org/jf>.
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