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IAM Media Engages in Trademark Violations While Trying to Misrepresent Free/Open Source Software in Relation to Software Patents

The "I" in IAM stands for "Infringement" (apparently)

Summary: The site/group which is trying to lecture us all about "intellectual" "property" is itself failing to respect the relevant laws; to make matters worse, it's liaising with groups of proprietary software vendors to mislead the public about the relationship between Free/Open Source software (FOSS) and patents, notably software patents

THIS post is about Battistelli's friends at IAM, which habitually whitewashed EPO scandals and is generally promoting patent trolls' interests. We'll have a lot more to say about it this coming weekend.



This quick post is about something which happened earlier today.

The IAM account in Twitter said: "Can open source and patents coexist? That's what experts from #OpenInventionNetwork, @Workday, @Uber and @RedHat will be discussing at Software IP on October 30 in San Francisco. Get your ticket here http://bit.ly/2QatL0l #SoftwareIP pic.twitter.com/OBUmBrBQqW"

Well, Red Hat is pursuing software patents but calls them "blockchains" amongst other thing; the rest of those in attendance are obviously misfits. Answering the question "Can open source and patents coexist," of course they cannot, but OIN and the others want them to because they're proprietary software companies and their front groups. They don't care about Free software or freedom. They also perturb the meaning of Open Source to suit a primarily proprietary agenda.

IAM is a think tank of patent trolls, Microsoft's patent trolls included. It also fronts for the patent microcosm, patent litigation 'industry' etc. They won't allow people to use the "F word" (freedom). It didn't take long for Simon Phipps (OSI President) to say: Interesting there's no-one from OSI or FSF speaking." He copies in the OSI and the FSF, the Free Software Foundation's chief to be more specific or exact.

"By the way," added an observer, "it got me thinking, isn't this a case of trademark infringement of OSI's Logo ? Doesn't seem to fit those clear guidelines..."

That links to the OSI's Web site.

Benjamin Henrion then joked that "the (R) has been removed at least."

So now we know how IAM really feels about "intellectual" "property" (what it calls copyrights, trademarks and patents as though they're all the same thing). Well, they have since then deleted this tweet, perhaps realising just how serious;y embarrassing this was; thankfully we made a copy and here is a copy of the image from their deleted tweet (the tweet's text is quoted above):

IAM trademark



They make it seem as though "Open Source" is all giddy about patents. They did this before too. Why does the OSI even participate in anything with such a nefarious lobby group? That says a lot about OIN (nothing positive). We mentioned this before.

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