GNU: How the Swedish Pirate Party Platform Backfires on Free Software http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-171798/gnu:how-the-swedish-pirate-party-platform-backfires-on-free-software Posts in the discussion thread "GNU: How the Swedish Pirate Party Platform Backfires on Free Software" - We also use copyright to partially deflect the danger of software patents. We cannot make our programs safe from them — no program is ever safe from software patents in a country which allows them — but at least we prevent them from being used to make the program effectively non-free. The Swedish Pirate Party proposes to abolish software patents, and if that is done, this issue would go away. But until that is achieved, we must not lose our only defense for protection from patents. http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-171798#post-544248 GNU: How the Swedish Pirate Party Platform Backfires on Free Software http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-171798/gnu:how-the-swedish-pirate-party-platform-backfires-on-free-software#post-544248 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:05:57 +0000 zoobab 2946 "We also use copyright to partially deflect the danger of software patents. We cannot make our programs safe from them — no program is ever safe from software patents in a country which allows them — but at least we prevent them from being used to make the program effectively non-free. The Swedish Pirate Party proposes to abolish software patents, and if that is done, this issue would go away. But until that is achieved, we must not lose our only defense for protection from patents."

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