[Sussex] A letter to our MEPs and MPs

[Karl E. Jorgensen]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 12:50:39PM +0100, Geoff Teale wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> OK.  To be rigourous we should reference Knuths open letter to the US 
> PTO regarding the reason why it is illogical to patent software 
> (explaining who Knuth is and why his opinion is worth at least as much 
> as the an businessmans):
> 
> http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/knuth-to-pto.txt

Actually there's a whole shedload of stuff from the league of
programming freedom there - just go up one directory:

    http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents

[apologies for the noise if everybody knew already]

-- 
Karl E. Jørgensen
karl at jorgensen.com   http://karl.jorgensen.com
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