A former Microsoft executive, who became a patent troll, is being backed by his old boss
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Bangaloreans Say No to Software Patents
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On 23rd August, 2008, a group of Bangaloreans is to gather outside Town Hall to protest software Patents under the aegis of Free Software Users Group, Bangalore at 5.30 PM.
Read more »Reminder: Protest Against Software Patents This Weekend
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Call for help against software patents in India. A few days ago, those protests in Bangalore received a quick mention.
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Stickers and banners for candle light vigil against software patents
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Yesterday I blogged on my greatest contribution to the Say No To Software Patent event to be held at Bangalore - a piece of web banner. Today there is something more. A sticker and t-shirt design!
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The Permission Problem
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In the second decade of the twentieth century, it was almost impossible to build an airplane in the United States.
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Why Mono is Currently An Unacceptable Risk
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In short, we are in an adversarial situation. Microsoft does not want us to succeed. Thus we cannot trust Microsoft, even if we'd like to, and must consider Mono based upon the question "What is the worst thing MS can reasonably do?". We can only trust Mono if we are convinced Microsoft doesn't have weasel room. The current situation appears, to me, to have lots of weasel room.
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The Software Patents Situation and How It Affects Free Software
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Patent news of interest to Free software users: codecs, GNU/Linux, trolls, and Microsoft
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Snapshot of the Software Patents Situation in the US, India, EU
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The trolling in the US continues, Microsoft's partners in India want software patents, Europe softens too.
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Free Software vs Microsoft: It’s Down to Patent Law Now
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Equilibrium of the law has yet to define the capacity for freedom
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Google's Patents Are About to be Killed? Calm Down, Everyone. It's Just Advocacy, a/k/a FUD
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I'm getting so many emails asking me what's happening with Google's patents and asking me to explain what is going on. OK. Nothing. Just a little legal FUD. Or some excellent advocacy, depending on your point of view.
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The Death of Google's Patents
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The Patent and Trademark Office has now made clear that its newly developed position on patentable subject matter will invalidate many and perhaps most software patents, including pioneering patent claims to such innovators as Google, Inc.
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Another Small Defeat for Software Patents (and Win for Free Software) in the US
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The patent Red Hat paid for a few weeks ago is no longer valid.
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Anger as IP sacrificed for interoperability
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The European Commission’s initiative to promote interoperability at the expense of IP rights has been criticized by the software industry
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WIPO will discuss a report on patents and open standards next week
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WIPO will discuss next week a report on the international patent system. A section of it is mentioning open standards.
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[Updated] Guidelines for Free System Distributions on gnu.org
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"Yavor informed me, that the GNU website has a new article. So read the Guidelines for Free System Distributions and afterwards you can comment FSFE's public discussion lists."
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