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I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the launch of the End Software Patents coalition, headed by Ben Klemens. Ars has a good write-up. Software patents are among the biggest threats to innovation in the software industry. And indeed, they’ve become a nuisance far beyond Silicon Valley, because every company uses software and is therefore likely violating software patents. It’s good to see the movement for ending them continue to grow.
Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.
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