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|title=Alan Cox on software patents
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|}}</ref>, and [[Bruce Perens]]<ref>http://perens.com/Articles/Patents.html</ref>, and companies such as Red Hat <ref>[http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html</ref> and [[MySQL]]<ref>http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/patents.html</ref>, and community groups such as [[FSFE]]<ref>http://fsfeurope.org/projects/swpat/</ref>, [[Irish Free Software Organisation|IFSO]]<ref>http://ifso.ie/projects/swpats.html</ref>, and others have worked to raise awareness of the problems of software patents for free software.

Other visible community figures have also condemned software patents. [[Linus Torvalds]] is one example, and while he didn't get involved in the campaign against software patents, he did put his name to a joint letter with Alan Cox against software patents.<ref>http://www.effi.org/patentit/patents_torvalds_cox.html</ref>
 
==Benefits of free software==