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This is actually what Stallman is advocating! In his own words: http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/richard-stallman-software-patents http://www.wired.com/opi

by dlitz 14y ago

This is actually what Stallman is advocating! In his own words: http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/richard-stallman-software-patents http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/richard-stallman-softwa... > My suggestion is to change the effect of patents. We should legislate that developing, distributing, or running a program on generally used computing hardware does not constitute patent infringement.

bcoates 14y ago
Thanks, I don't know how I missed that, I blame RMS's hair. I guess the phrase "Software Patents" and the strange rules about software patentability in Europe gave me the impression that they wanted to take the non-patentable route instead of the non-infringing one.