Donald Knuth's letter to the patent office regarding software

From: Max M (maxm@mxm.dk)
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 08:20:58 MDT


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Here is a short text I think that many of you will find interresting
regarding software patents.

http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/knuth-to-pto.txt

Imagine not being able to run our uploads without paying patent licences ...

regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark

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    Max M


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