ing the arguments against software
patents, at
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.rants.org/2007/05/01/how-to-tell-that-software-patents-are-a-bad-idea/">http://www.rants.org/2007/05/01/how-to-tell-that-software-patents-are-a-bad-idea/</a>.</p><div class="footnotes"><br/><hr/><div class="footnote"><p><sup>[<a id="ftn.idp8720592" href="#idp8720592" class="para">34</a>] </sup>Sun Microsystems and
IBM have also made at least a gesture at the problem from the other
direction, by freeing large numbers of software