Florian Müller, the founder of the NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign, has published his long-awaited testimonial of his role in the amazing story of the software patent war in Europe. The book is entitled “No Lobbyists As Such – The War over Software Patents in the European Union”, and it is now available online for download under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Creative Commons German licence. A perfect read for the long flight to Rio next week.
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