[Office-commits] r9947 - trunk/campaigns/patents

[sysadmin]

Author: www-data
Date: Fri Oct  2 10:07:48 2009
New Revision: 9947

Log:
web commit by ciaran: elaborate the point about being unjust to individuals - 
that way the paragraph gives more info than the 3rd paragraph mention

Modified:
   trunk/campaigns/patents/bilski-supreme-court-brief.mdwn

Modified: trunk/campaigns/patents/bilski-supreme-court-brief.mdwn
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--- trunk/campaigns/patents/bilski-supreme-court-brief.mdwn     Fri Oct  2 
08:38:27 2009        (r9946)
+++ trunk/campaigns/patents/bilski-supreme-court-brief.mdwn     Fri Oct  2 
10:07:48 2009        (r9947)
@@ -43,7 +43,10 @@
 problems. Given that software development includes common activities
 such as making a webpage, the freedom to use a computer as you see fit
 for your daily life is a fundamental form of expression, just as using
-a pen and paper is."
+a pen and paper is. ... In the context of writing an email reader, a
+word processor, or an image viewer, being blocked from reading,
+modifying, or writing in the required data format is equivalent to
+being banned from writing a functional program for that task."
 
 In April of 2008, FSF worked with the End Software Patents (ESP)
 campaign which filed an amicus curiae brief in the Court of Appeals