Video: Mark Menard on Software Patents

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2011-04-29 15:18:39 UTC
Modified: 2011-04-29 15:18:39 UTC

Summary: Perspective on the subject of software patents

AS PART of our special week's coverage on software patents we now turn our attention to this recent TEDxAlbany talk from Mark Menard (November 2010). We may not agree with all of his points, but it is a relevant talk and it is quite recent.

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As a secondary item, consider this guy's show which is really quite good and deserves more exposure (he occasionally but not regularly covers GNU/Linux issues). Here he is addressing the subject of software patents. He will hopefully become a regular in TechBytes. He was on it in the latest epidsode and he expressed interest in being part of future episodes. ⬆

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Video: Mark Menard on Software Patents

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