s on free software.  Only changes in the
substance or interpretation of international patent law will do that.
To learn more about the problem, and how it's being fought, go to
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/">http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/</a>.  The Wikipedia
article <a class="ulink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent</a>
also has a lot of useful information on software patents.  I've also
written a blog post summariz