Richard Stallman on software patents

Richard Stallman is a well known campaigner against software patents. He founded the Free Software Foundation in 1985 and the League for Programming Freedom in 1989.

Related pages on ESP Wiki

• Shielding software from litigation - a legislative proposal by Stallman, an alternative to the exclusion approach
• Statements from developers

Articles

EU software patents directive

• Soft sell, August 2nd 2005, just after the rejection by the European Parliament
• Patent Absurdity, June 23rd 2005
• That's fighting talk, with Nick Hill, 2003, pubished in The Guardian
• http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/savingeurope.html
• http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,1540984,00.html

General and other topics

• Patent Law Is, At Best, Not Worth Keeping, 2013, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal
• Nokia's patent announcement next to nothing, May 2005 (about the patent promises of IBM, Sun, and Nokia)
• Viewpoint: Software Patents - Boom or Bane?, June 1, 1992, published in Computerworld (p.33)
• http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.html
• http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/software-literary-patents.html
• http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/patent-reform-is-not-enough.html
• http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/trivial-patent.html
• Stallman on the Harm of Patents, Tim O'Reilly discussion with Stallman, March 2000
• 2000 Interview for by J.S. Kelly
• Amazon Letter from RMS to Tim O'Reilly, 11 Mar 2000
• Richard Stallman on Software Patents 2005-05-18 (2005), Canada

Transcripts

• http://www.ifso.ie/documents/rms-2004-05-24.html (Stallman discusses How to avoid software patents)
• http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/stallman-patents.html
• http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-mec-india.html

General external links

• Richard Stallman's personal homepage
• video: The EPO is a corrupt and malicious organisation which should not exist
• Stallman crashes European Patent session [in Australia], 21 Sep 2010, itnews