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ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION - MISSION STATEMENT July 10, 1990

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To that end, the Electronic Frontier Foundation will: 1. Engage in and support educational activities which increase popular understanding of the opportunities and challenges posed by developments in computing and telecommunications. 2. Develop among policy-makers a better understanding of the issues underlying free and open telecommunications, and support the creation of legal and structural approaches which will ease the assimilation of these new technologies by society. 3. Raise public awareness about civil liberties issues arising from the rapid advancement in the area of new computer-based communications media. Support litigation in the public interest to preserve, protect, and extend First Amendment rights within the realm of computing and telecommunications technology. 4. Encourage and support the development of new tools which will endow non-technical users with full and easy access to computer-based telecommunications.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation One Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142 (617) 577-1385

eff@well.sf.ca.us

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morsch13y ago· 1 in thread

Thanks for looking this up. I think campaigning in the area of software patents is covered pretty clearly by those, by items 3 and 4 but particularly item 2. If anything it's a better fit than I expected, because it's more detailed and more explicit about open technology than the simplified mission of protecting digital rights.

shawn-butlerOP13y ago

Open technology is largely orthogonal to patent reform. It has little or nothing to do with the other.

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