- Mitch Kapor's Congressional Testimony - http://www.base.com/software-patents/kapor.html
Mitch Kapor is the founder of Lotus. This is his testimony to Congress OPPOSING software patents, saying they are harmful.
- Against Patenting Lifeforms - http://www.hindunet.org/srh_home/1995_11/msg00067.html
A spiritual argument against the patenting of life forms by biotech companies
- Negative Correlation of Innovation and Software Patents - http://www.base.com/software-patents/scoreboard.html
This is part of the League for Programming Freedom's submission to the Patent Office, January 25, 1994. It shows evidence that patents hurt even the companies which get them.
- Oracle Corporation - Patent Policy - http://www.base.com/software-patents/statements/oracle.html
This is a press release by Oracle, the database giant, AGAINST the copyrighting of software.
- Preparing for the Intellectual-Property Offensive - http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1998-11/lw-11-thesource.html
In the interest of ensuring that free software developers having access to patented technology, Open Source Initiative co-founder Bruce Perens suggests a number of tactics and strategies to consider.
- Autodesk Statement - http://www.base.com/software-patents/statements/autodesk.html
Autodesk, the makers of a very popular animation program, have issued this statement against software patents.
- Adobe Testimony - http://www.base.com/software-patents/statements/adobe.testimony.html
Transcript of the testimony by Douglas Brotz, an Adobe Principal Scientist, wherein Adobe officially establishes its opposition to software patents.
- A Worldwide Fight Against Biopiracy and Patents on Life - http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/pat-ch.htm
Farmers and indigenous peoples are outraged that plants that they developed are being 'hijacked' by companies. Groups as diverse as religious leaders, parliamentarians and environment NGOs are intensifying their campaign against corporate patenting of living things.
- Internet Patent News - http://www.bustpatents.com/
Legal resources and tools for surviving the patenting frenzy of the Internet, bioinformatics, and electronic commerce
- FFII - European Software Patent Horror Gallery - http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/pikta
Tabular listings and statistics of monopolies on programming problems, granted by the European Patent Office against the letter and spirit of the existing laws.
- Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe - http://petition.eurolinux.org
A short petition text which was signed by more than 50000 people in Europe during the first few months of its existence and which rallied support statements from 200 IT companies and 1000 programmers
- Slashdot - Patents - http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=155
Featuring patent news, links and discussion.
- Top Reasons Why No Epatents - http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/TopReasonsWhyNoEpatents
Illustrates the main reasons why EU should deny software patentability. Counter-arguments, reports and other informative texts.
- Protecting Innovation Against Patent Inflation - http://www.ffii.org.uk/swpat.html
The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) features legal information, news and selected online resources against software patentability.
- Software Patents Mailing List - http://www.aful.org/wws/info/patents
Mailing list discussions about the economic consequences of patents in the software industry.
- NoSoftwarePatents.com - http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com
Campaign website against software patents in the EU. (Different languages)
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