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A new initiative from the EFF:

The Patent Busting Project. “The new EFF initiative seeks to document these threats [to small organizations targeted by holders of bad patents] and fight back against them. EFF has pledged to file “re-examination” requests with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), asking the agency to revoke patents that are having negative effects on Internet innovation and free expression.”

I haven’t really been following

the SCO lawsuit against IBM too much, but this story about SCO’s Mind-Bogglingly Bad Faith in Dan Gillmor’s Journal caught my eye.

Required reading

on the issue of software patents: Simson Garfinkel, Patently Absurd, Wired 2.07.

Software patents

Dave Winer discusses the software patent issue more in Scripting News today in No More Pesos for Senor Bezos. He also refers to a really nice article by Seth Shulman on the subject – Software Patents Tangle the Web.

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