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[Meme] 'Open Source' Study/Report From the European Commission Promotes Software Patents in Europe
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IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 09, 2021
IRC logs for Thursday, September 09, 2021
[Meme] The Coloniser Campinos, Preying on the Poor
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[Meme] [Teaser] Put the Ballot in This Box...
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All the President's Men and Women in Latvia
Video about part 18 of the ongoing series, which was published early this morning
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 08, 2021
IRC logs for Wednesday, September 08, 2021
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XVIII – A Baltic Circus in Riga
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[Meme] [Teaser] Be My Rigga'
Teaser ahead of today’s main article, which will be published — as promised yesterday — at 6AM
Techrights Statement on Stefano Maffulli as Executive Director of OSI
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[Meme] Forward Pharma Meets EPO Patent 'Quality'
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EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XVII – Secret Bank Accounts in Switzerland and Germany
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EPO Oversight
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The EUIPO-EPO den of nepotism (misuse of EU funds/jobs by António Campinos) is still fully operational, as we shall see tomorrow morning at around 6AM GMT
[Meme] EPO and EUIPO Aren't Democratic Institutions
How António Campinos and Benoît Battistelli rigged the election at the EUIPO and EPO
[Meme] 12 Years of Corporate Deplorables Running the USPTO
It’s hard to swallow the idea (myth, fiction) that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office protects the ‘small person’ when it’s run by Mr. Iancu, an old Trump associate (protecting a high-profile fraud), preceded by Mr. Kappos (Microsoft and IBM lobbyist) and Michelle Lee (Google)
Challenging David Kappos, Seeking Accountability Over His Corporate Legacy as IBM/Microsoft 'Mole' Inside the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
David Kappos is still active, he’s still lobbying for software patents (IBM and Microsoft pay him to do this), so we’re reporting him for conflict of interest (DC Bar, California Bar, and the New York State Bar Association)
Links 10/9/2021: liveslak-1.3.10 and PipeWire 0.3.35
Links for the day
Links 10/9/2021: Firefox Ads and Sci-Hub Turns 10
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[Meme] 'Open Source' Study/Report From the European Commission Promotes Software Patents in Europe
OpenForum Europe and a German patent troll have issued this report, which on the surface looks like advocacy regarding (or for) software freedom… until one looks more closely (in a nutshell, it promotes European software patents as a beneficial thing and pretends that only source code controlled by Microsoft in proprietary software (GitHub) actually counts or exists at all — a common fallacy promoted by the GPL-violating monopolist)
What Patent Colonialism Looks Like
This video discusses the latest two “news” items from the EPO (first in about a month!) and part 19 of the current series, which ends tomorrow
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 09, 2021
IRC logs for Thursday, September 09, 2021
[Meme] The Coloniser Campinos, Preying on the Poor
EPO President António Campinos is still doing in former Portuguese colonies what Benoît Battistelli used to do in former French colonies (and beyond)
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part IXX – The EUIPO Connection
The Baltic ‘crusade’ of Tony, son of the “Carnation Revolution”, goes more than a decade back
[Meme] [Teaser] Put the Ballot in This Box...
EUIPO chief António Campinos (before he was parachuted into the top role of the EPO) meets his rigga’ in Riga
Links 9/9/2021: LibreOffice 7.2 Manuals and Rust 1.55.0
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Links 9/9/2021: LibreOffice 7.1.6 Community, Tor Browser 10.5.6, and WordPress 5.8.1
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All the President's Men and Women in Latvia
Video about part 18 of the ongoing series, which was published early this morning
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 08, 2021
IRC logs for Wednesday, September 08, 2021
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XVIII – A Baltic Circus in Riga
In this part we look at the high turnover of "directors" and "acting directors" at the Latvian Patent Office over the last decade
[Meme] [Teaser] Be My Rigga'
Teaser ahead of today’s main article, which will be published — as promised yesterday — at 6AM
Techrights Statement on Stefano Maffulli as Executive Director of OSI
There are positives in today's announcement about new OSI leadership (or full-time member of staff), but time will tell if promise turns into concrete results
Links 9/9/2021: GNOME 41 RC and GStreamer 1.18.5
Links for the day
Links 8/9/2021: QCoro 0.2.0 and Accessible-Coconut
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An Introduction to Techrights IRC
A gentle introduction to what network we use and how to use it (we're including a full manual)
Techrights is Self-Hosted and Recent Events Show That Self-Hosting Pays Off
There are censorship-type attacks against proponents of Free software, but you probably didn't hear about them; we need to self-host a lot more than the media tells us (it loves promoting clown computing, i.e. outsourcing)
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 07, 2021
IRC logs for Tuesday, September 07, 2021
Corruption in Latvia's Patent Office
A video about part 17 of the ongoing series
[Meme] Forward Pharma Meets EPO Patent 'Quality'
The lack of time for proper patent examination and the pressure to allow lots of fake patents (European Patents without legal justification/merit) can spell disaster for businesses while only lawyers profit
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XVII – Secret Bank Accounts in Switzerland and Germany
Why Zigrīds Aumeisters was apparently removed at the advanced age of 80; Criminal charges followed, just like his friends up north
Links 8/9/2021: OpenSSL 3.0, GhostBSD 21.09.06, and Plans for sudo 1.9.8?
Links for the day
Links 7/9/2021: Firefox 93 Beta and Tails 4.22
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EPO Oversight
Some poetry about the awful state of the EPO, whose abuses are facilitated by a total lack of oversight
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