Talk:League for Programming Freedom

What does 'decommoditizing' mean?

sounds like one of those new words Microsoft are inventing

"After the lawsuit ended, the League went dormant to be resurrected when software patents enforcement and threats became increasingly annoying, for example with Microsoft threats of decommoditizing its interfaces." unsigned comment was added by 210.227.0.250 (talk - contribs) 23:40, 19 September 2005 (UTC).

An interface between programs is a commodity if it's open, so that anyone can write a program to use that interface. HTML is a famous example: it's standards-based, so in theory, you can write a browser that supports the standard. Except when a popular browser supports non-standard extensions. Then the interface is no longer a commodity, and you have to pay for that browser whenever you want to read one of those non-standard web pages. --Slashme (talk) 16:40, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

This makes no sense

"The league with co-ordination of other organizations have successfully block software patents bill from being converted into act in India."

I'll edit if no comments within a week. unsigned comment was added by 210.227.0.250 (talk - contribs) 23:42, 19 September 2005 (UTC).

Adam Richter, founding member?

The Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X article says that Adam Richter was a founding member of the LfPF and cites this as the references:

http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-activists/1992/12/1/16961 (where LfPF is mentioned in Richter's sig)

Can anyone confirm/deny this? Give a better reference? --Gronky 09:51, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

possibles sources for citations

• http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=%22league+for+programming+freedom%22&more=date_all
• http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22League+for+Programming+Freedom%22+-progfree.org&as_sdt=0%2C33&as_ylo=&as_vis=0
• http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22League+for+Programming+Freedom%22+-progfree.org&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2%2C33&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

Lentower (talk) 04:21, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

John Gilmore as founding member?

The history page listed under "External links" mentions it started after Stallman and Gilmore designed a logo, so I wonder whether John Gilmore should be listed as a founding member. Also, note that the article on Richard Stallman says he co-founded the LPF, so either this article needs to be changed to mention rms was not the only founding member, or the rms article needs to be changed. But I wonder which one is correct! Nuno J. Silva (talk) 20:24, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

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