Comments

• twitter

  2008-11-03 00:33:24

  Here's an older FSF article about this case.

• G. Michaels

  2008-11-03 02:29:04

  twitter, since according to Roy you are not a troll and do not collaborate with him on promoting BN (contrary to what your activities on Slashdot seem to suggest), would you like to comment on why you continue to nymshift and shill your own comments?
  
  http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1015749&cid=25604523
  
  Aside from trying to pretend that people agree with what you say, you posted on that article with four different accounts. Can you explain why you do that? Having conversations with yourself goes against your argument that you use multiple accounts simply to get around the posting limit imposed by your negative moderation by the Slashdot community.
  
  Would you like to comment on any of the threads and posts linked to from this page?
  
  http://slashdot.org/~SockDisclosure/journal/214377
  
  I'm sure that the author of that journal would welcome corrections and clarifications.
  
  Would you also like to comment on why you multi-post anonymously on articles that criticize BN?
  
  Note: writer of this comment adds absolutely nothing but stalking and personal attacks against readers, as documented here.

• Jose_X

  2008-11-03 21:22:17

  What about actually interacting with the computer?
  
  See the comment titled "Depressing" posted on Nov 3rd here http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20081030150903555#comments

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-11-03 21:25:57

  I get the impression that Microsoft et al will continue to exploit loopholes.
  
  “[T]hey [the EPO] can’t distinguish between hardware and software so the patents get issued anyway”."

  --Marshall Phelps, Microsoft

  
  
  Also see:
  
  In Huge Shift, Court Ruling Effectively Denies Software-Only Patent Rights http://gizmodo.com/5072858/in-huge-shift-court-ruling-effectively-denies-software+only-patent-rights
  
  "The big question is what effect, if any, this decision will have on the current referral of a “point of law” concerning software patents by the President of the European Patent Office (EPO) to the EPO “Enlarged Board of Appeal”, something I wrote about earlier this week. It would be ironic if, at a time when the US courts begin to move away from patenting software “as such”, the EPO started allowing precisely that through a relaxation of its own rules"
  
  http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=1452

• Jose_X

  2008-11-04 17:41:52

  Red Hat's amicus brief has a good introduction covering foss issues http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080409173618804 . This link can be found here http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20081103134949355 alongside related coverage.