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| schestowitz | RE: Canada Needs to Fight Back Against Software Patents and Business Method Patents | Oct 19 00:00 |
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| schestowitz | > Hello Dr. Schestowitz, | Oct 19 00:00 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 19 00:00 |
| schestowitz | > I’m a producer at Business News Network, Canada’s only all-business news | Oct 19 00:00 |
| schestowitz | > national television network. I am in the process in covering the recent | Oct 19 00:00 |
| schestowitz | > Federal Court appeal of the Amazon business method patent decision. Am | Oct 19 00:00 |
| schestowitz | > I correct in thinking that you believe the Federal court’s decision was | Oct 19 00:00 |
| schestowitz | > not a good one? Can you please briefly describe why you take issue with | Oct 19 00:00 |
| schestowitz | > this decision? | Oct 19 00:00 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 19 00:00 |
| schestowitz | > I’d really appreciate it if you could help me out on this issue. Thanks! | Oct 19 00:00 |
| schestowitz | Dear [...], | Oct 19 00:00 |
| schestowitz | Thank you for contacting me. | Oct 19 00:00 |
| schestowitz | Amazon's so-called "one-click shopping" patent (there are other nicknames for it) is one of the most controversial patents in the world. It has been a milestone case for several years now and a Google search will yield literally thousands of threads discussing the subject. As the patent's nickname suggests, Amazon wants a patent monopoly on a very fundamental process whereby a buyer makes a transaction over the Internet with | Oct 19 00:00 |
| schestowitz | decreased difficulty. There is no real novelty there and assessment of this patent by different patent offices across the world may help define national stance on business method & software patents (c/f Bilski case in the United States). | Oct 19 00:00 |
| schestowitz | Software patents are considered legitimate in very few countries, notably the US and some nations in east Asia. Canada can enjoy the benefits already enjoyed by Europe by immunising itself against software patents, which in turn provides a haven to software developers. What Amazon does right now jeopardises Canada by opening the floodgates -- through precedence -- for so-called 'patent trolls' to attack Canadian software | Oct 19 00:00 |
| schestowitz | businesses. RIM (or Blackberry fame) already suffers from these. | Oct 19 00:00 |
| schestowitz | If you are interested in having my opinion in video/audio, please let me know. I was on some shows and movies before, having been invited to express my opinion on these matters. In fact, I've just appeared on the cover of a British magazine for my writings in this area and I'll be delighted to contribute to your production. | Oct 19 00:00 |
| schestowitz | One hour ago: | Oct 19 00:01 |
| schestowitz | > Thanks for getting back to me quickly. I would love to have you on my | Oct 19 00:01 |
| schestowitz | > television show. The only issue is that you are in Manchester. We | Oct 19 00:01 |
| schestowitz | > sometimes have guests from London. By chance, will you be in London any | Oct 19 00:01 |
| schestowitz | > time soon? | Oct 19 00:01 |
| schestowitz | Dear [...], | Oct 19 00:01 |
| schestowitz | I can certainly arrange to be there on a date of your choice (with or without reimbursement, I can do so at my own expense). I did travel to London earlier this year for a movie. I'll just need to know in advance when to be there so that the university will give me time off work. | Oct 19 00:01 |
| schestowitz | > By the way, can you please send me a copy of your piece in the British | Oct 19 00:01 |
| schestowitz | > magazine? | Oct 19 00:01 |
| schestowitz | Sure. I wrote about this 2 hours ago: http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2010/10/18/format-magazine-on-techrights/ | Oct 19 00:01 |
| schestowitz | I could send you the raw text if you are interested. | Oct 19 00:01 |
| TechrightsBot-sc | Title: schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » Me in Linux Format Magazines Cover .::. Size~: 32.24 KB | Oct 19 00:01 |
| schestowitz | FurnaceBoy: hey, maybe they'll even fly me to Canada... | Oct 19 00:01 |
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| schestowitz | http://identi.ca/conversation/56133298#notice-56658516 | Oct 19 03:05 |
| TechrightsBot-sc | Title: Conversation - Identi.ca .::. Size~: 10.39 KB | Oct 19 03:05 |
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| scientes | sweet | Oct 19 03:40 |
| scientes | congrats | Oct 19 03:41 |
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| schestowitz | http://identi.ca/conversation/56130947#notice-56658633 "dude, you are saying that you are producing 3.7 mb of pure text? Wow" | Oct 19 07:23 |
| TechrightsBot-sc | Title: Conversation - Identi.ca .::. Size~: 9.14 KB | Oct 19 07:23 |
| schestowitz | The group does | Oct 19 07:23 |
| schestowitz | "really? Is MS now attacking Java? wow" http://identi.ca/conversation/56170255#notice-56659163 | Oct 19 07:23 |
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| schestowitz | scientes: if you need some help moving, let me know | Oct 19 07:24 |
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| schestowitz | FurnaceBoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VVqL9etvU0 | Oct 19 08:20 |
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| MinceR | http://unreasonablefaith.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Science-vs.-Norse-590x1861.jpg | Oct 19 10:38 |
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| schestowitz | Today I'm in an Asian newspaper, maybe soon in Canadian TV. | Oct 19 11:40 |
| oiaohm | Good or bad? schestowitz | Oct 19 13:08 |
| schestowitz | Great | Oct 19 13:08 |
| oiaohm | About techrights or you did something else to get yourself in there I have not heard about. | Oct 19 13:09 |
| schestowitz | The only financially rewarding thing about techrights is this | Oct 19 13:09 |
| schestowitz | Sometimes it helps me get better employment or free trips | Oct 19 13:09 |
| schestowitz | oiaohm: just the site's take on issue | Oct 19 13:10 |
| schestowitz | *issues | Oct 19 13:10 |
| schestowitz | have you seen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qub4lWT6GNk ? | Oct 19 13:10 |
| TechrightsBot-sc | Title: YouTube - Election 2010 Spoof Trailer - GetUp! .::. Size~: 124.66 KB | Oct 19 13:10 |
| oiaohm | Did you take note of the movies the footage was from. schestowitz | Oct 19 13:14 |
| oiaohm | They are all special effects done here in Australia | Oct 19 13:15 |
| oiaohm | So techrights is starting to get way into media. schestowitz | Oct 19 13:17 |
| oiaohm | This is great in more ways than 1. | Oct 19 13:17 |
| oiaohm | schestowitz: Interesting see the Java world some are starting to see the true problem here. Apache harmony might just simple cease as a independant java framework. | Oct 19 13:56 |
| oiaohm | Its going to be interesting to see were that leave android. | Oct 19 13:56 |
| schestowitz | I've just published something that may be of interest to NGOs: http://techrights.org/2010/10/19/ngo-software-freedom/ | Oct 19 14:57 |
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| *Topic for #boycottnovell-social set by schestowitz!~schestowi@unaffiliated/schestowitz at Fri May 7 00:20:14 2010 | Oct 19 16:10 | |
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| schestowitz | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO1aFyo5LWI | Oct 19 20:27 |
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| schestowitz | symbian collapses | Oct 19 22:51 |
| schestowitz | http://mashable.com/2010/10/19/symbian-foundation-resignation/ | Oct 19 22:52 |
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