{"id":309,"date":"2005-06-23T06:05:37","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T22:05:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:55:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:55:52","slug":"rms_on_european_patent_reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2005\/06\/23\/rms_on_european_patent_reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"RMS on European patent reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bloglink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/online\/comment\/story\/0,12449,1510566,00.html\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk&#8230;1510566,00.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stallman.org\/\">Richard Stallman<\/a> 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&#8217;s disturbing that I can actually imagine planning a software project, worrying about the patent issues, and thinking &#8220;this is too much trouble, I just won&#8217;t bother writing it&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk&#8230;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&#8217;s disturbing that I can actually imagine planning a software project, worrying about the patent issues, and thinking &#8220;this is too much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2005\/06\/23\/rms_on_european_patent_reforms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RMS on European patent reforms&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-4Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3965,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/3965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}