Thursday May 31, 2007 links for 2007-05-31
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Things Not To Say In The Security Line, part N.
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Seems OOXML can't be fully implemented anywhere except Office 2008 on Windows Vista: "There is no full set of beta OOXML converters available now, and there won't be fully interoperable capabilities later on."
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Good for the LAst.FM team, doesn't sound good for us in the Last.FM community though - "He said Last.fm's strength in building communities around music and syndicating content was "central to CBS"."
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US citizens should get their views on the record.
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Interesting discussion from Stephen that leaves me asking why the world's largest patent holder gets away with being silent so often.
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"Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives."
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( May 31 2007, 01:25:12 AM PDT )
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The use of patent grant in Free/Open Source Licenses such as Apache Software License Version 2.0, Common Development and Distribution License Version 1.0, soon GNU Public License Version 3 and patent covenants for standards/specifications are good, it provides assurances along with a pragmatic short solution to the software patent problem until patent reform happens.
Software patents damages the economy, competition and innovation, there are many examples of this.
The world's largest patent holder has granted patents for Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) but if any FOSS project that does use patents not granted by world's largest holder, the FOSS project may be subject to patent lawsuit. The world's largest patent holder does assert its patents.
The efforts of Patent Commons and Open Invention Network are merely attempts to legitimise software patents and the so called Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).
It should be noted that the world's largest patent holder also lobbies for software patents in Europe.
I also believe the world's largest patent holder strategy is to limit areas of development among FOSS projects.
I have huge concerns about the world's largest patent holder.
Posted by Haren Visavadia on May 31, 2007 at 01:18 PM PDT #
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Posted by Simon Phipps on June 04, 2007 at 01:43 AM PDT #