Now is the time to help each other move forward to full software freedom. Without free as in freedom software, we cannot and will not have a free society. Your membership will help us pave a way to UserFreedom. Read more. Skip to content , sitemap or skip to search. The film is based on a series of interviews conducted during the Supreme Court's review of in re Bilski , a case that could have profound implications for the patenting of software.
They opened the floodgates to the patenting of software ideas and business methods, previously held by the Supreme Court to be unpatentable subject matter. The price of that activism is being paid by today's programmers, who find it increasingly difficult to write software without risking being sued, and by businesses who have to face increased litigation and lega fees. Software patents block compatibility and standards, make programmers remove useful features, and are the cause of unknown amounts of frustration in the daily life of many individuals," said Ciaran O'Riordan, the director of the End Software Patents campaign, and a technical adviser to the filmmakers.
However, biomedical researchers, medical care providers, and their patients cannot afford to wait the many years it will take before any Supreme Court decision has a practical effect on existing patents. People around the world are realizing their responsibility to stand for user freedom against technological injustice. Now is the time to help each other move forward to full software freedom. Without free as in freedom software, we cannot and will not have a free society.
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