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Block the PERA and PREVAIL Act – A major step back for software freedom — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software

This article was updated Sunday, November 17 to reflect the delay of the bills Both the vote on the PERA Act, as well as the vote on the PREVAIL Act have been delayed. Both bills are not yet off the

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Transcript: The state of software patents in 2022 with Panos Alevropoulos

Note: This transcript is not a faithful reproduction of Panos’s live talk, but an edited version of his presentation. Many parts were rephrased to correct any inaccuracies and provide a more comfortab

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Google’s decision to deprecate JPEG-XL emphasizes the need for browser choice and free formats

Whether it’s through the millions of dollars Google has funneled into development and advertising or the “convenience” that it offers users in exchange for freedom, the fact remains that Google Chrome

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Join the fight against software patents with the revamped campaign site

There are many problems caused by the enforcement of patents in the software industry, but it is important to first understand how user and developer freedoms are affected. If you don’t know what End

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The threat of software patents persists

At the Free Software Foundation (FSF) we have reported extensively on many issues concerning user freedom. In this article, we will reintroduce a problem that has plagued the free software community f

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Jarek Duda on software patents

Jarek Duda is a lecturer in Institute of Computer Science and Computational Mathematics of Jagiellonian University. He has education in computer science (PhD), physics (PhD) and mathematics (MSc), foc

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About Microsoft’s patent licence for .NET core

Because Microsoft has made it part of their core business to extract patent royalties from distributors of free software (particularly on smartphones), I decided to take a look at the patent safety of

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US Supreme Court reining in software patents

(For analysis and info links, see the swpat.org wiki page Alice v. CLS Bank.) “Reining in”. It wasn’t easy to find a term that was both accurate and also vague enough to describe what just happened.