Library Groups Urge Patent & Trademark Office To Rethink ‘Open Source’ Stance [password/proxy server required if off-campus]. Seems that the PTO doesn’t understand the open-source issue very well.

“The difference is not whether we rely on copyright but for what purpose,” Mogelin said. Proprietary software uses copyright to seek profits, he said, but “we use copyright for a purpose more fully in keeping with the intentions underlying the copyright system in the first place — to promote the progress of science and the useful arts.” (Eban Mogelin, general counsel of the Free Software Foundation).

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