Considerations on Patents that Read on Language Infrastructure

Courtesy Linux Today  Wed, 07/01/2009 - 08:32

Software Freedom Law Center: "...the software freedom community should minimize its use of programming language infrastructure that comes primarily from anti-software-freedom companies, notwithstanding FaiF (Free as in Freedom) implementations.

I've been thinking about an extension of that argument: that language infrastructure created in a community process is likely more resilient against attacks from proprietary software companies."

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