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A Thriving FOSS Community on the North
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| Living in Sweden, conferences usually
| include travelling abroad. This is all fun,
| but it also means spending time away from
| family and work. This in turn means catching
| up on work, i.e. spending even less time
| with the family. Not exactly what I want to
| do all my life.
|
| Recently this has changed. First of all, the
| free community conference FSCONS (held in
| Gothenburn Sweden), has gained more and more
| technical content (without losing the free
| community angle!). This means that it is
| more and more attractive to my flavour of
| geeks. This year, in November, they are even
| pursuing an embedded track and I
| definitively plan on both attending and
| speaking!
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/thriving-foss-community-north
The Contributor's Code: What Should be Expected of FLOSS Contributors?
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| Free and open source projects provide an
| amazing example of what volunteer contributors
| can do. While many folks are paid to work on
| open source, there's still an enormous amount
| of work done by volunteers. Like any volunteer
| work, though, contributions can be disrupted by
| more pressing work and personal issues. What
| do, or should, contributors commit to when
| volunteering with a project?
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http://ostatic.com/blog/the-contributors-code-what-should-be-expected-of-floss-contributors
Recent:
EU Patent system taken away from European Court of Justice
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| Business Europe fiercely opposes a role for
| the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in
| patent law. During a conference in the
| European Parliament in Strasbourg, Thierry
| Sueur of Business Europe disclosed the
| United Patent Litigation System (UPLS) was
| aimed to keep the ECJ away from
| interpreting substantive patent law under
| the European Patent Convention (EPC),
| particularly for software patentability.
|
| Hartmut Pilch analysed in 2007: "In July
| 2005, after several failed attempts to
| legalise software patents in Europe, the
| patent establishment changed its strategy.
| Instead of explicitly seeking to sanction
| the patentability of software, they are now
| seeking to create a central European patent
| court, which would establish and enforce
| patentability rules in their favor, without
| any possibility of correction by competing
| courts or democratically elected
| legislators."
|
| Benjamin Henrion, President of the FFII,
| comprehends their concerns: "While the US
| Supreme Court can review decisions of the
| Texas patent courts, this recourse would
| not be available to Europeans. A newly
| created UPLS patent court would have the
| final say over software patentability."
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http://press.ffii.org/Press%20releases/EU%20patent%20system%20taken%20away%20from%20European%20Court%20of%20Justice
Hacking through the Software Patent Thickets
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| Most people in the hacking community are
| well aware that patents represent one of
| the most serious threats to free software.
| But the situation is actually even worse
| than it seems, thanks to the proliferation
| of what are called patent thickets. To
| understand why these are so bad, and why
| they represent a particular problem for
| software, it is necessary to go back to
| the beginning of patent law.
|
| The patent thicket As their name implies,
| patents are about making something
| âpatentâ, or public, so that others can
| use and build on an invention â but only
| after a certain period, during which time
| the patent-holder has a monopoly right
| (what kind of right is discussed below).
| Indeed, the origin of British patent law â
| and of many anglophone countries that base
| their law on this tradition â is the 1623
| Statute of Monopolies.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Hacking-through-the-Software-Patent-Thickets-1006091.html
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