[Fsf-friends] BlueJ threatened by Microsoft.

Vimal Joseph vimalekm@[EMAIL-PROTECTED]
Mon Jan 29 00:24:40 IST 2007


On 1/28/07, Debarshi Ray <debarshi.ray at gmail.com> wrote:
> BlueJ is a free software IDE which aims to teach object-oriented
> programming and Java to beginners and is developed by University of
> Kent and Deakin University with support from Sun Microsystems.

a small correction: BlueJ is not a "Free Software" as its licence
(http://www.bluej.org/about/license.html) prohibits its users to
study, modify and redistribute the system.

> The following link tells you about how it is being threatend by
> Microsoft through software patents.
> http://www.bluej.org/mrt/?p=21

This post clearly shows how software patents affect non-free software
as well and why we should raise our voice against software patents.

Ref:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.html
http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/intro/index.html



~vimal



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