[Gllug] Patents article in the Guardian (an open letter)

[Gordon Joly]

At 14:50 +0100 2003/06/13, Richard Jones wrote:
>Re: http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,975126,00.html
>
>I'm a free software developer, and a some-time Labour voter, and
>(ironically) the author of two US software patents, but I'm not happy
>about any extension of the patent system.
>
>Patents are being knowingly used by large software companies to extend
>their monopolies - the classic example being the use of patented video
>and audio formats. MP3s are patented, with the result that Red Hat
>cannot distribute any MP3 decoding software with its Linux
>distribution (Red Hat has upwards of 80% share in installed Linux
>systems, so this is significant).

[...]


Indeed, very significant.

Gordo

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