MJR slef-reflection AFFS feedSummary of AFFS-related things I do or knowSoftware Patents Film Theme- (Found July 5, 2008 ) The Good: Richard Allan reenters the fray which is doubly good, as I don't understand why libdem MEPs are voting for software patents and regulation for regulation's sake. That's not the liberal way and it's no more democratic to approve EPO's current practice than to let them keep on misbehaving. The Bad: FFII reports that the EPP (Conservative) coordinator Lehne works for a patent litigator. The Ugly: a good-looking demonstration against software patents. Go along and add your picture and...http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2005-1.html#swpat0628 AGMs, Searching and Bad Orange- (Found July 5, 2008 ) AFFS Annual Conference "The Association for Free Software ... We hold an annual 1-day conference and Annual General Meeting ... Date: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM SAT 13th AUGUST 2005 Location: ... LONDON" - Gentoo, Hula, Software Patents, more to be confirmed. Hope to see you there. No Bureaucracy at Barbecues! Yet Another August AGM Reports, voting and elections at a barbecue for a society which can't fulfil the aims of setting it up "I move: the AGM dissolves the Debian-UK Society and...http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2005-2.html#agmsearchorange08 New monopolies and laws- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Community Designs "A Registered Community Design will grant a monopoly right to prevent unauthorised persons from dealing in products, which incorporate the design. Did anybody notice this new monopoly right going through" - email from David M Berry. Opposite of good: BT Just to balance the last company recommendation, a company warning. BT don't even do the little they say they will. Ulema Edict on Intellectual Property Rights Could Be Misleading "This conclusion means that utilizing.http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2005-2.html#nmal0829 Random bits- (Found July 5, 2008 ) SCO's 3Q conference call Report says "SCO now has 190 employees". John Airey (Peterborough LUG) said "This company is losing money like it's an Olympic Sport." I know it's mean to laugh, but: Haha! Attack on Human Rights UK Interior Minister and Norwich South MP, Charles Clarke said: "The view of my Government is that this balance is not right for the circumstances which we now face - circumstances very different from those faced by the founding fathers of the European Convention on Human...http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2005-2.html#randomScoEdriStalk debian-legal package list for August 2005- (Found July 5, 2008 ) If you are interested in packages of: bittorrent bsdiff dcc enigma fai freemind ironpython larn mail-notification php4-apd php4-pear php4-pear-log php-auth php-date php-db php-file php-http php-mail php-mail-mime php-net-smtp php-net-socket php-pear php-xml-parser rheolef stixfonts texi2html tvbrowser or zsnes then you might find this package-based index of debian-legal interesting.http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2005-2.html#dlpl0508 Lands of IP Glory- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Sing along now: Lands of I P Glory, Mothers of all fees, How shall we enforce thee, While we're cussed wi' thee Wider still and wider Shall thy bounds be set; God, who made thee mighty, Makes thee mightier yet. EU IPRED 2 Alert This beauty of anti-free-culture says: "Member States shall ensure that all intentional infringements of an intellectual property right on a commercial scale, and attempting, aiding or abetting and inciting such infringements, are treated as criminal...http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2005-2.html#ipglory Packages seen by debian-legal- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Packages covered on the debian-legal list last month include: celestia cinelerra-CVS howtos (many but not all) faac flamerobin gcfilms ike-scan larn linux-kernel linuxsampler ntp Loads of php-pear stuff Stuff including tux images star stixfonts umoria vigra warzone wwwcount Read more...http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2005-2.html#dlpl0509 Awards, FACT, Formats, DreamBox- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Outstanding Contribution to Software Development Congratulations to the Winner: NoSoftwarePatents.com & The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) Instant Blitz Copy Fight Project "I have a project to take a flash photo of every FACT warning I see before a film, flash bc it lets everyone in the audience know that I'm doing it." -- Cory Doctorow 360K Floppies Were Not The Problem This mention of closed binary file formats sounds a lot like one of the incidents...http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2005-2.html#affd1003 Brazilian Free Software & Copyleft- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Monday 10th October, 7pm - late Guanabara, Parker Street, Nr. Drury Lane, London WC2 Cost: Free This Cybersalon will discuss the Brazilian government's free software project and its support for copyleft at the forthcoming WSIS conference on 18-19th November in Tunis, Tunisia. Longer descriptionhttp://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2005-2.html#gilbertogil PR, GR, Law- (Found July 5, 2008 ) On the first day of Christmas month, GPLv3 sent to me: three corporate counsels two FSF spokesmen, a research corporation director and a lawyer in a pear tree. No community projects support GPLv3 Were they excluded or did they refuse If GPLv3 is a similar corporation-placater to the FDL, sacrificing freedom for sponsorship, I predict a riot. A bit of discussion about this problem here. The proposed resolution on publishing debian-private emails both contradicts itself and may have...http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2005-3.html#gplv3fr |