Successful internet entrepreneurs Mark Cuban and Markus "Notch" Persson have each donated $250,000 to the Electronic Frontier Foundation in hopes of reforming a "broken" and "dangerous" patent system. Cuban, who started early internet radio site Broadcast.com and currently owns the Dallas Mavericks, has previously called to end all software and process patents, saying that the latter serve "absolutely no purpose." His EFF donation will fund the new "Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents," which will be held by Staff Attorney Julie Samuels. It will also pay for the EFF to hire an additional patent reform attorney, Daniel Nazer.
Persson, whose company Mojang created the hit game Minecraft, made a separate donation, which will go to...
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