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From: "Florian Mueller" <florian.mueller@nosoftwarepatents.com>
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Subject: Wrote an op-ed for Slashdot on patent pools and pledges
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:00:32 +0100
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FYI:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/15/1715235&tid=166

It was time to explain why those patent pools and pledges are just cheap PR
plays of hardly any value, and why the political level is the only one at
which the problem can be solved.

I'm going to reference this text in the future like a position paper, and
there'll be more announcements of patent pledges by companies etc. in the
future...

Florian


