Tuesday November 10, 2009
☞ A Day of Challenges
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US Department of Justice issues a statement that's the diplomatic equivalent of a challenge to the EU regulator.
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Completely agree with the points made here. The deep evil of software patents is less their actual enforcement in the cases where there is merit. It's the many, many cases where they are used cynically to force out-of-court payments with menaces, as illustrated here. The absolute minimum changes needed to the system are to outlaw this sort of practice or at very least make any money extorted be repayable with interest in the event the patent is later overturned.
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The European Commission declares war
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Looks like the gloves are off.
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Bad news for software freedom. Yes, it's pragmatic, but it means the diseased status quo of the mobile industry is infecting Android. (And yes, I have fought every instance of Sun doing the same thing)
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DAISY is a talking book format that allows texts to be read out loud - especially valuable for the visually impaired. Today saw the launch of a new add-on for OpenOffice.org that makes creation of DAISY talking books easy. Great news, congrats to Vincent & the team.
Posted by webmink
( Nov 10 2009, 04:08:22 AM PST )
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