05.31.08
Posted in News Roundup at 3:34 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Unitary Patent (UPC) Died Along With the Credibility of Managing IP and the Rest of the UPC Lobby
It is pretty astounding that Team UPC (collective term for people who crafted and lobby for this illegal construct) is still telling us lies, even in the absence of underlying supportive facts, and pressure groups disguised as "news sites" latch onto anything to perpetuate an illusion of progress (even in the face of a growing number of major barriers)
IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 06, 2019
IRC logs for Friday, December 06, 2019
Links 7/12/2019: Fedora 31 Elections Results, Lots of Media Drama Over VPN Bug
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Links 6/12/2019: DRM in GNU/Linux and Sparky Bonsai
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The EPO Rejects Innovation
The EPO ceased caring about the needs of scientists whose work involves invention; instead, EPO management crafts increasingly lenient guidelines that yield illegal European Patents (not compatible with the EPC) that heavily-besieged EPO judges are unable to stop
Startpage CEO Robert Beens in 'Damage Control' Mode, Trying to Get Startpage Relisted After Selling to a Massive Surveillance Company
PrivacytoolsIO is being lobbied by the CEO of Startpage to relist Startpage, based on no actual refutations at all
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 05, 2019
IRC logs for Thursday, December 05, 2019
Links 5/12/2019: qBittorrent 4.2.0, Expensive Librem 5 and OpenBSD Bugs
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Microsoft Staff Repeatedly Refuses to Tell How Many People Use WSL, Defends Patent Extortion and Blackmail of Linux Instead
The people who develop WSL (mostly Microsoft employees) get easily irritated when asked how many people actually use this thing; but more interestingly, however, they reveal their disdain for GNU/Linux and support for Microsoft blackmail (for 'Linux patent tax')
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 04, 2019
IRC logs for Wednesday, December 04, 2019
Links 4/12/2019: Tails 4.1, UCS 4.4-3 and Proxmox VE 6.1
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Google Tightens Its Noose
Now it’s official! Google is just a bunch of shareholders looking to appease the Pentagon at all costs
Europeans Still Need to Save the European Patent Office From Those Who Attack Its Patent Quality
Patent quality is of utmost interest; without it, as we're seeing at the EPO and have already seen at the USPTO for a number of years, legal disputes will arise where neither side wins (only the lawyers win) and small, impoverished inventors or businesses will be forced to settle outside the courts over baseless allegations, often made by parasitic patent trolls (possessing low-quality patents they don't want scrutinised by courts)
We Never Accepted and Will Never Accept Corporate Money
Corporate money is a unique problem because of its magnitude and the fact that it's impersonal; shareholders can only ever accept its supposed justifications if they're receiving something in return (of proportional worth to the payment/transaction)
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 03, 2019
IRC logs for Tuesday, December 03, 2019
Links 3/12/2019: elementary OS 5.1 Hera, Plasma 5.17.4, Firefox 71
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Laundering the Reputation of Criminals: That's an Actual Job
An important reminder that the manufactured, paid-for (media is being bribed) image of Bill Gates is the product of the PR industry he enlisted to distract from his endless crimes
'Priceless' Tickets to the EPO's Back End and Team UPC
CIPA's and the EPO's event (later this week) is more of the same; the EPO exists not to serve European businesses but a bunch of law firms and their biggest clients (which usually aren't even European)
IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 02, 2019
IRC logs for Monday, December 02, 2019
New EPO Leak Shows That the Rumours and Jokes Are Partly True and We Know Who 'Runs the Show'
Europe’s second-largest institution is so profoundly dysfunctional, a reprehensible kakistocracy of tribalism, money-grabbing career-climbing autocrats and possibly major fraud; today’s leak looks at what motivated and enabled the formation and latest incarnation of “Team Campinos”
Links 2/12/2019: Linux Mint 19.3 Beta, DPL Sam Hartman Talks About SystemD
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What Former Debian Project Leader (Second to the Late Ian Murdock) Thinks About SystemD in Debian GNU/Linux
Now that Debian is debating and voting on diversity in the technical sense the thoughts of Bruce Perens merit broader audience/reach
Free/Libre Software Will Eventually Become the Norm, 'Open Source' is Just Proprietary Software Trying to 'Buy Time'
More people are starting to ask questions about Free software while “Open Source” languishes (people can see it’s just a mask for proprietary software); it was a two-decade delaying tactic that’s wearing off (people see GitHub and the OSI/Linux Foundation for what they really are)
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 01, 2019
IRC logs for Sunday, December 01, 2019
Richard Stallman is Active and Doing Well
The rumour mill may still be humming along; but against all odds — as Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project — Stallman keeps fighting the good fight (in the face of growing resistance)
Banning Former Microsoft Employees Who Complain About Microsoft Lies, Abuses and Crimes
The official account of Windows Insider is banning people whom it never even spoke to; this seems like a way of 'punishing' people who are not 'true believers' in Microsoft
Wikileaks: Thierry Breton May Have Misused Regulatory/Government Positions to Attack His Competition (in the Market)
Thierry 'revolving doors' Breton as seen by the United States government
13 Years of UPC Promises
The anatomy of UPC 'fake news' or lobbying tactics along the lines of self-fulfilling prophecies and false predictions
Is Water Wet?
The criteria for patent eligibility reduced only to this question: will allowing these patents increase ‘production’ (number of patent grants)?
The EPO's President Admits He's Illegally Granting Software Patents (CII, 4IR, IoT, AI and Blockchain Mean Software Patents at the EPO)
The EPO's chief liar is openly and proudly promoting software patents using buzzwords and hype waves (and mysterious acronyms that are rather meaningless but spread by the media in exchange for money received from the EPO)
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Uncle_Sam said,
June 1, 2008 at 11:08 am
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/12/232
Linus opinion about SUN. HAHAHA. Nice !!!
Roy Schestowitz said,
June 1, 2008 at 11:45 am
yes, a brilliant analysis. Sun has already bought Murdock, among others.
Uncle_Sam said,
June 1, 2008 at 12:21 pm
The article is old.
Date Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:45:46 -0700 (PDT)
Roy Schestowitz said,
June 1, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Yes, I saw that when it was new, IIRC. It received some attention at the time.