FSFE-IE August 2011

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Handful of swpat articles. This is heating up again...
by ciaran＠member.fsf.org 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

"Patent war pending", by Adam MAGUIRE http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/innovation/2011/0826/1224302794951.html I only skimmed it quickly, but it seems mostly ok. I got the impression he attributes the problems to the "loose patent-approval process". That's a conception we have to fix. A quality problem exists, but it's not *the* problem. Software ideas simply shouldn't be patentable. He mentions NPR's "When Patents Attack" article from a month ago: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/26/138576167/when-patents-attack It's a really great read. The result of a year of chasing down Intellectual Ventures. The Economist also had something recently: http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/08/intellectual-prop… I put together something of my own, just out of necessity: http://news.swpat.org/2011/08/more-than-trolls/ And Stallman published this in The Guardian last week: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/22/european-unitary-patent-so… -- Ciarán O'Riordan, +32 485 118 029 (<-NEW), http://ciaran.compsoc.com Please help build the software patents wiki: http://en.swpat.org http://www.EndSoftwarePatents.org Donate: http://endsoftwarepatents.org/donate List: http://campaigns.fsf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/esp-action-alert

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IFSO Meeting this evening
by Glenn Strong 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

Hi folks, In defiance of the holiday season, we will be holding our usual monthly meeting tonight: Tuesday 16th August 2011, starting at 20:00 Long Stone pub, Townsend Street, Dublin 2 Hope to see you there! Glenn.

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FSFE-IE August 2011