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IEEE-USA pleased that Supreme Court's ruling preserves software patents
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| The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday
| that a new method of doing business can be
| patented, and that the ability to patent
| software should not be limited.
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http://rdmag.com/News/Feeds/2010/06/policy-ieee-usa-pleased-that-supreme-courts-ruling-preser/
Post-Bilski Steps for Anti-Software-Patent Advocates
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| Lots of people are opining about the USA
| Supreme Court's ruling in the Bilski case.
| Yesterday, I participated in a oggcast with
| the folks at SFLC. In that oggcast, Dan
| Ravicher explained most of the legal
| details of Bilski; I could never cover them
| as well as he did, and I wouldn't even try.
|
| Anyway, as a non-lawyer worried about the
| policy questions, I'm pretty much only
| concerned about those forward-looking
| policy questions. Looking back at how our
| community responded to this Bilski
| situation over the last 18 months, some of
| it seems similar to what happened while the
| Eldred case was working its way to the
| Supreme Court. In the months preceding both
| Eldred and Bilski, there seemed to be a
| mass hypnosis that the Supreme Court would
| actually change copyright law (Eldred) or
| patent law (Bilski) to make it better for
| freedom of computer users.
|
| [...]
|
| License your software APGLv3, GPLv3, LGPLv3
| or Apache-2.0. Among the copyleft licenses,
| AGPLv3 and GPLv3 offer the best patent
| protections; LGPLv3 offers the best among
| the weak copyleft licenses; Apache License
| 2.0 offers the best patent protections
| among the permissive licenses. These are
| the licenses we should gravitate toward,
| particularly when now that it is certain
| that companies with software patents are
| coming after Free Software. At least when
| such companies contribute code to projects
| under these licenses, we know those
| particular codebases will be safe from that
| particular company's patents.
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http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/06/30/bilski.html
Recent:
Microsoft chucks bargain bin at world's youth
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| The Redmond giant is teaming up with industry
| standards body the Institute of Electrical
| and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) to give its
| student members gratis access to Microsoft
| development software, training, and job
| opportunities.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/19/microsoft_ieee_student_member_software/
Related:
Recent:IEEE wants its students to be slaves
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| Below is a message I just got from IEEE. I was a student member of IEEE and
| office bearer of my
| college's IEEE chapter. But I didnt renew my membership with several reasons
| including disagreement on such a great amount of knowledge being locked up
| behind their online digital library. Now, This is a message inviting me back
| to join IEEE offering non-free software from M$ for gratis.This has been
| shown as an attractive offer in the mail, But i feel it as a confirmation
| message not to join IEEE ever after.
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http://swatantran.blogspot.com/
Pillay: OOXML debate and the IEEE code of ethics
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| Harish Pillay is annoyed by the ISO OOXML process and thinks the conduct
| infringes upon his professional code of ethics. But his rules just don't
| apply.
|
| [...]
|
| An ISO technocrat would probably stress now that ISO/IEC does not apply these
| IEEE principles and wash his hands. Admitted. I thought, I had the view
| ISO/IEC process participants would naturally apply principles like these in
| standardization. I was naive. The mere existence of a Code of Ethics is an
| indication that the ethics seems to contravene the common practice. Of
| course, no doubt, ISO is not bound by IEEE ethics.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-48665/pillay:ooxml-debate-and-the-ieee-code-of-ethics
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