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Meet on open source software from April 19
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| The Department of Computer Science and
| Engineering of Federal Institute of Science
| and Technology (FISAT) will organise
| ICEFOSS- 10, a conference for enthusiasts
| of free and open source software, from
| April 19 to 21.
|
| ICEFOSS is a platform for the promotion of
| Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). It
| will feature various programmes, including
| lectures on the philosophical and technical
| aspects of free software, workshops and
| open discussions.
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http://expressbuzz.com/cities/kochi/meet-on-open-source-software-from-april-19/164354.html
Use value and free software
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| Not everyone was happy with that, and we
| got rebels such as the heroes of the Free
| Software Foundation. Iâm not going to
| preach to the choir and repeat the rise and
| success of free software, but Iâm going to
| say that the rebellion was all about a
| world-class hacker such as Richard Stallman
| being unable to fix the driver software for
| his brand new Xerox printer because it was
| proprietary. The use value was greatly
| diminished.
|
| Free software is all about making software
| useful again. Software is only useful when
| you can do what your needs are, not someone
| elseâs. No software vendor is ingenious
| enough to predict what you might want to
| do. Free software communities are: they
| just do what you tell them to do. Weâre
| talking usefulness, use values again.
|
| So now that we have philosophically and
| economically fixed everything with the free
| software ideology and open source
| development models, and we have wonderful
| systems like Linux-based GNU systems and
| all the awesome apps that run on them,
| weâre home free, right? Iâm not sure.
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http://www.siltala.net/2010/04/11/use-values-and-free-softwar/
Recent:
India - Enter the patent troll
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| So it was interesting to read a report that the biggest ands scariest one of
| them all, Intellectual Ventures, founded by the redoubtable Nathan Myhrvold,
| had come to India. Intellectual Ventures, according to the Wall Street
| Journal, has more than 20,000 patents and patent applications ârelated to
| everything from lasers to computer chipsâ. Myhrvold was the chief strategist
| and chief technology officer of Microsoft before he sent up Intellectual
| Ventures, an idea that he owes to Bill Gates. Microsoft had a huge patent
| liability problem with a seemingly endless line of people suing the company
| for infringement of their patents. It was then that Myhrvold came up with the
| idea of accumulating patents under one roof to manage them better. His
| rationale: it is more efficient for companies to deal with him than thousands
| of patent holders. The transaction costs alone make it worthwhile for
| companies to pay Intellectual Ventures its steep fees.
|
| [...]
|
| Intellectual Ventures debut here coincides with the news that CSIR is
| considering a move to transfer its patent lode to an independent holding
| company that will manage it professionally. The patents would be monetised in
| various ways, licensing being one option.
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http://spoonfeedin.blogspot.com/2008/10/india-enter-patent-troll.html
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