Software patents: Letter of Donald Knuth

Gerrit Muller gerrit.muller at philips.com
Wed Aug 7 09:32:00 EDT 2002


Software patents threaten teh development of open software, such as our
excellent Python language. Donald Knuth has written a very clear and
impressive letter to the U.S. Patent Office:
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/knuth-to-pto.txt

regards Gerrit

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