http://www.guardian.co.uk…1510566,00.html
Richard Stallman wrote an article for the Guardian in which he exposes the absurdity of software patent laws by applying them to other large bodies of writing: classical literature. A good read. It’s disturbing that I can actually imagine planning a software project, worrying about the patent issues, and thinking “this is too much trouble, I just won’t bother writing it”.
Yeah, I read the same article and thought the literary metsphor was great for expressing the problems with software patents.
I hope this gets widely read.