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A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation
Promoting the adoption and development of Alicebot and AIML free software.

PRESS RELEASE

Alicebot Joins 'Civil War of Intellectual Property'
A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation declares support for Richard Stallman and the fight
for freedom of 'Intellectual Property'

29 May 2001-San Francisco CA: The A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation
(http://alicebot.org) today released a statement regarding 'intellectual
property' rights, in the light of the recent escalation of public debate
about the topic, sparked by dramatic public statements from Microsoft
against free and open source software.

"This is the Civil War of Intellectual Property," said A.L.I.C.E. creator
Richard Wallace. "These attacks by Microsoft are just the beginning. I am
sure they were prepared for the onslaught of criticism from Stallman and
others, in fact they probably expected it. I am sure that Microsoft is
prepared for a long war."

Microsoft's Jim Allchin, Richard Mundie and others have recently made
statements attacking the basic foundations of free software
(http://www.fsf.org) and open source processes as being antithetical to
success in business. The Free Software Foundation has posted many helpful
informational documents answering common questions about the GNU GPL, and
countering Microsoft's rhetoric.

The Alicebot engine and core AIML are released under the GNU GPL. Although
Wallace has stated that the initial decision to do so in 1995 was a
"fortunate accident of history", the decision has since come to be critical
in distinguishing A.L.I.C.E. and its progeny from commercial alternatives
that are shrouded in secrecy and rely on unproven proprietary algorithms and
programming languages.

While commercial vendors have attempted to sell their wares for hundreds of
thousands of dollars, and have blocked the general development community
from participating in improving the technology, A.L.I.C.E. has enjoyed six
years of uninterrupted attention from over 300 talented developers all over
the world. Hundreds of thousands of people have spoken with Alicebot
engines, providing a richer source of data than any commercial engine has
ever enjoyed. The result has prompted Wallace to say that "No other theory
of natural language processing can better explain or reproduce [our]
results".

But, says Wallace, "most of the big players don't even know AIML is in the
game yet. We are off in the wilderness winning small battles. As time
passes these victories will become more important, and I expect A.L.I.C.E.
and AIML to move to the center of the IP War before it's over.

"Naturally I believe that the good guys will win, with all our advantages.
But this war could last a lot longer than anyone expects."

The A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation officially announces its support for the Free
Software Foundation's efforts to protect the legal basis on which several
hundreds of software programs have been developed and released to the
public: the GNU General Public License.

ABOUT THE A.L.I.C.E. AI FOUNDATION:

The A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation was founded in 2001, as a non-profit
organization with the following mission:
Promote the adoption and development of Alicebot and AIML technology.
Develop and maintain standards for AIML, the AIML pattern language,
Alicebot implementations, and Alicebot interfaces (Responders).
Pursue and promote research and development in natural language and
artificial intelligence technologies.
Provide education and training resources to promote the adoption of AIML
technologies.
Work closely with and advise commercial entities engaged in AIML,
development to develop standards, plan future programs, and evaluate
research and development.
Allocate public and/or private funds as appropriate to organizations,
agencies or individuals who can provide AIML, programs or products of high
quality if they are deemed beneficial to the community.
Plan and host periodic conferences and meetings as required to accomplish
the general goals of the organization.

ABOUT RICHARD WALLACE:

Dr. Richard S. Wallace is the Chairman of the Board and co-founder of the
A.L.I.C.E. Artificial Intelligence Foundation. He is the author of
Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML) and Botmaster of A.L.I.C.E.
(Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity). Dr. Wallace's work has
appeared in the New York Times, WIRED, CNN, Time, ZDTV and in numerous
foreign language publications across Asia, Latin America and Europe.

Richard Wallace is a volunteer accountant and programmer for St. Martin de
Porres' Chapel, a medical cannabis patient services organization. Wallace
was diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder in 1992, and became
functionally disabled in 1999. He cares for sick and dying patients every
day, and provides critically needed technical assistance to the Center.

In 1995 Dr. Wallace began working on A.L.I.C.E. Originally a SETL program,
first used to control a robot eye with natural language commands, A.L.I.C.E.
migrated to the platform-independent Java language in 1998. Made open source
under the GNU general public license, more than 300 developers from around
the world now contribute to the A.L.I.C.E. project. A.L.I.C.E. won the
Loebner Prize, an annual Turing Test, in 2000.

Richard Wallace was born in Portland, Maine in 1960. Wallace earned his
Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon in 1989. He lives in San
Francisco with his wife, Kim, and son, Linus.

Contacts:

Noel Bush
noel@alicebot.org

Dr. Richard Wallace
drwallace@alicebot.org