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hearings on software patents. We welcome suggestions for other |
hearings on software patents. We welcome suggestions for other |
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activities, as well as help in carrying them out. |
activities, as well as help in carrying them out. |
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Membership dues in the League are $42 per year for programmers, |
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managers and professionals; $10.50 for students; $21 for others. |
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Please give more if you can. The League's funds will be used for |
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filing briefs; for printing handouts, buttons and signs; whatever will |
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persuade the courts, the legislators, and the people. You may not get |
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anything personally for your dues--except for the freedom to write |
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programs. The League is a non-profit corporation, but not considered |
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a tax-exempt charity. However, for those self-employed in software, |
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the dues can be a business expense. |
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The League needs both activist members and members who only pay their |
(Added 2003) The League for Programming Freedom is inactive nowadays, |
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dues. We also greatly need additional corporate members; contact us |
though its web site www.programming-freedom.org is still maintained. |
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for information. |
It would be very useful to find a person who could take the initiative |
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to get the LPF operating again. It will be a substantial job, |
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requiring persistence and working with a lawyer. If you want to do |
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If you have any questions, please write to the League, phone |
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+1 617 621 7084, or send Internet mail to lpf@uunet.uu.net. |
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Chris Hofstader, President |
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Dean Anderson, Secretary |
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Aubrey Jaffer, Treasurer |
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Chris Hofstader can be reached at (617) 492-0023; FAX (617) 497-1632. |
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To join, please send a check and the following information to: |
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League for Programming Freedom |
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1 Kendall Square #143 |
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P.O.Box 9171 |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 |
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(Outside the US, please send a check in US dollars on a bank |
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having a US correspondent bank, to save us check cashing fees.) |
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Your name: |
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The address for League mailings, a few each year; please indicate |
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whether it is your home address or your work address: |
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The company you work for, and your position: |
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Your phone numbers (home, work or both): |
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Your email address, so we can contact you for demonstrations or for |
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writing letters. (If you don't want us to contact you for these |
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things, please say so, but please give us your email address anyway |
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so we can save paper and postage by sending you the newsletter by email.) |
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Is there anything about you which would enable your endorsement of the |
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LPF to impress the public? For example, if you are or have been a |
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professor or an executive, or have written software that has a good |
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reputation, please tell us. |
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Would you like to help with LPF activities? |
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The corporate charter of the League for Programming Freedom states: |
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The purpose of the corporation is to engage in the following |
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activities: |
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1. To determine the existence of, and warn the public about |
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restrictions and monopolies on classes of computer programs where such |
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monopolies prevent or restrict the right to develop certain types of |
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computer programs. |
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2. To develop countermeasures and initiatives, in the public interest, |
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effective to block or otherwise prevent or restrain such monopolistic |
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activities including education, research, publications, public |
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assembly, legislative testimony, and intervention in court proceedings |
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involving public interest issues (as a friend of the court). |
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3. To engage in any business or other activity in service of and |
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related to the foregoing paragraphs that lawfully may be carried on |
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by a corporation organized under Chapter 180 of the Massachusetts |
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General Laws. |
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The officers and directors of the League will be elected annually by |
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the members. |
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