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Richard Stallman’s letter to the judge

By Scarlett Madison1 min readGoogle News

There’s a real difference between the ways that punishment are handed down for technology infringements. The judge that received a letter from Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman didn’t agree.

Richard Stallman believes the U.S. patent system damages the software industry. Free Software Foundation president Richard Stallman tried to get Stratfor hacker Jeremy Hammond’s judge to only hand down a community service sentence. Hammond, instead, received 10 years in jail today.

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