“Partly in response to Microsoft’s recent patent threats to
Linux and other open-source software, the FSF (Free Software
Foundation) announced on May 16 the creation of a new activist
campaigns team to organize public support into action on software
freedom issues.“In announcing the decision to create the campaigns team, FSF
Executive Director Peter Brown spoke of Microsoft’s recent attempts
to use software patents as the basis of an attack against free
software…”
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