I know it’s a category mistake to feel human emotions toward a corporate entity, but I can’t help feeling sympathy

This notice just went up at the Software Freedom Law Center… Could it have anything to do with Microsoft filing

I just sent this letter to New Scientist magazine; no idea if they’ll print it or not, so I’m posting

A student named Augusto Pedroza posted a comment here recently, a comment containing such a large and complex question that

Microsoft recently claimed that open source code (in particular the Linux kernel) violates 235 of Microsoft’s patents. It’s not clear

I’ve written elsewhere about how software patents harm software development. This article is about how there’s very little corresponding benefit