Recommended reading

• Brian Kahin, ``The Software Patent Crisis,'' Technology Review (April 1990): 53-58.

• Mitchell Kapor, Testimony at Hearings before U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Administration of Justice, of the Committee on the Judiciary (March 5, 1990).

• Pamela Samuelson, ``Benson Revisited: Should Patent Protection Be Available for Algorithms and Other Computer Program-Related Inventions?'' Emory Law Journal (Fall 1990): 1025-1154.

• Pamela Samuelson, ``Should Program Algorithms Be Patented?'' Communications of the ACM (August 1990): 23-27.

Simson Garfinkel is a senior editor at NeXTWORLD magazine (San Francisco) and the coauthor of the book Practical UNIX Security.

Richard M. Stallman is one of the founders of the League for Programming Freedom (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and the recipient of the Association for Computing Machinery's Grace Hopper Award.

Mitchell Kapor, a founder of the Lotus Development Corporation, is president of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (Cambridge, Massachusetts).