Software patents are one of the great evils.

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href="http://swpat.ffii.org/players/knuth/index.en.html">http://swpat.ffii.org/players/knuth/index.en.html</a></span></font><p
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font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">IMO-YMMV</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
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font-family:Arial">Perhaps an advocacy group would be better.  Tragically, nothing will ever come of excellent
discussionssuch as those by Knuth.  So really, I’m just venting.</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
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