> My suggestion is to change the effect of patents. We should legislate that developing, distributing, or running a program on generally used computing hardware does not constitute patent infringement.
Thanks, I don't know how I missed that, I blame RMS's hair.
I guess the phrase "Software Patents" and the strange rules about software patentability in Europe gave me the impression that they wanted to take the non-patentable route instead of the non-infringing one.
> My suggestion is to change the effect of patents. We should legislate that developing, distributing, or running a program on generally used computing hardware does not constitute patent infringement.