Z:gnu-www-ja-danger-of-software-patents--4a9727-I'm most known for starting th/en

I'm most known for starting the free software movement and leading development of the GNU operating system&mdash;although most of the people who use the system mistakenly believe it's Linux and think it was started by somebody else a decade later. But I'm not going to be speaking about any of that today. I'm here to talk about a legal danger to all software developers, distributors, and users: the danger of patents&mdash;on computational ideas, computational techniques, an idea for something you can do on a computer.