IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: Sunday, May 16, 2021

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(Kluwer Patent Blog published on 11/05/2021) “A Few More Thoughts on Normality”.

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The Kluwer article links to the following blog publication (original French version): ""Vers une nouvelle normalité": contribution de MM. Jacques Michel et Willy Minnoye".

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Click here for the English translation.

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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/05/board-of-appeal-upholds-principle-of.html?showComment=1620755643036#c3856115494082489908

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May 16 02:09

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Board of Appeal upholds the principle of "any person" opposition in view of the broader public good (T 1839/18) - The IPKat

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Filing an anonymous opposition by a patent agent is also risky, the uninterested party might be discovered by social engineering. Using public resources like registers or social networks you might find a link between the patent agent and the uninterested person. Even if you use an unknown patent agent, usually suggested by you usual patent agent, there is a risk of discovering a link between both patent agents...

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If anonymity is the real concern you should consider to use a commercial service provider like e.g. www.ghost-ip.com This could also solve the problem of anonymous experimental data or? It might not solve the problem of a technical experts attending the oral proceedings.

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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/05/board-of-appeal-upholds-principle-of.html?showComment=1620811905967#c6468941842585004746

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Board of Appeal upholds the principle of "any person" opposition in view of the broader public good (T 1839/18) - The IPKat

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Wow, there sure seem to be a lot of patent agents around filing oppositions!

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I used to see individual attorneys taking on the role of the strawperson, but I think this has fallen out of favour. I forget exactly why naming an individual was ever seen as preferable to filing in the name of a firm or a made-for-the-purpose shell company. It's a bit morbid, but I always wondered what would happen if that individual died while the opposition was ongoing.

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> Bastian Best

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> In case you haven’t heard it through the grapevine already: I’m leaving

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> Bardehle Pagenberg after 13 years (!) to start my own solo patent practice.

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> Unlike many solo practitioners, I’m not going to offer the whole

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> vendor’s tray of intellectual property. Quite the contrary, my strategy

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> is to hyper-focus: *only patent prosecution, only for digital and

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> software-related inventions*.

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> I’m extremely excited about this new phase! And there will be plenty of

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> learnings to share on this email list for sure.

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> My new firm will officially launch on 16 May. In the meantime, don’t be

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> shy and let me have any tips you want to share.

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Today I offload 60gb of video (raw stuff) to the 3 external drives for storage, as they clog up the main drive (SSD). I've listed all video in http://techrights.org/videos.html and I hope I did not accidentally list something I ought NOT ;-) if you can double-check by gazing/clicking... lots of stuff there

May 16 08:38

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Techrights Full Videos Listing

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● NEWS ● #Phoronix # ☞ Fedora 35 Might Drop Installer Option To "Allow SSH Root Login With Password" https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-35-Install-Root-SSH-PW

May 16 08:57

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.phoronix.com | Linux Hardware Reviews, Open-Source Benchmarks & Linux Performance - Phoronix

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<li>

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<h5><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-35-Install-Root-SSH-PW">Fedora 35 Might Drop Installer Option To "Allow SSH Root Login With Password"</a></h5>

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.phoronix.com | Linux Hardware Reviews, Open-Source Benchmarks & Linux Performance - Phoronix

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<p> A Fedora 35 change proposal submitted this week that is ruffling some feathers is over removing the "allow SSH root login with password" option from Fedora's Anaconda installer. </p>

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<p> The past several years there has been a Fedora installer option to "allow SSH root login with password" to enable password-based logins over SSH. This hasn't been enabled by default but simply offered as an option for those wanting a password based login. </p>

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<p> With Fedora 35 this autumn the change proposal wants to eliminate this option from the installer. The basis is that the option was planned to only be temporary and security benefits in just dropping the option to encourage users to rely on SSH keys, etc. </p></blockquote></li>

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<h5><a href="https://nxos.org/other/open-letter-distrowatch/">Open Letter: DistroWatch</a></h5>

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nxos.org | Nitrux — #YourNextOS — A Linux for Everyone

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<p>For the better part of three years, we have remained silent about your ongoing efforts to affect people’s perception of our Linux distribution continuously. We have tried our best not to engage with your evident hostility and disregard to inform your viewers and visitors about correct facts of the Linux distributions you display on your website, especially ours. </p>

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<p> However, we have decided to take a stance. It is today, the 6th of May, that we gallantly demand you to stop. </p>

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<p> We do not accept for one more minute that the information displayed on your website about our product remains erroneous in what is no longer a “mistake” or “oversight” on your part. In addition, we do not accept the way you have chosen to describe our product, including making an absolute wild claim that we did not offer our product to the public before an arbitrary date, even if that is easily

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refuted.</p></blockquote></li>

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<h5><a href="https://news.itsfoss.com/nitrux-linux-distrowatch-apology/">Nitrux Linux is Demanding an Apology From DistroWatch</a></h5>

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.itsfoss.com | Nitrux 1.3.7 Release Adds Latest LTS Kernel Support, KDE Plasma 5.20.5, And A New Application Menu - It's FOSS News

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<p>It looks like Nitrux's page on DistroWatch provides incorrect information, which the maintainer isn't willing to update yet.</p></blockquote></li>

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There's not much metadata to go from there in the list. :/

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yes, there is not and it would take a lot of worth to add any, though the filenames are sometimes descriptive enough

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RE "rpi feed is somewhat broken"

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this reminds me, krebs' feed is still not working properly and I don't know why

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I'll check the krebs feed

May 16 09:30

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Ok, krebs' site has been updated. The feed should would from tomorrow,

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until they change again...

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he has been added to Google News (I noticed days ago)

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I wonder why. Google News censors strongly towards specific agendas.

May 16 09:41

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I guess that means they have a use for his message.

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btw, right to repair getting tons of coverage lately, I find some along the way without even reaching out for that. I also added that dmca talk to TR the other day, it can help remind people to stick it to the monopolists

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That is good. It looks like there are some key issues which

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FOSS and RtR share in common. The tractor problem is one of the more

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high profile category of cases.

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(where FOSS applies)

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yes, that is covered a lot in the libreplanet talk. this is why those companies leverage greenwashing... seeding confusion or out of guilt

http://techrights.org/2021/05/14/right-to-repair-talk/

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ibm started trolling (imho) the layoffs board and I think the red hat puff pieces about hiring are partly reactionary

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Nathan Proctor: Right to Repair and the DMCA | Techrights

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see if there are more talks in https://media.libreplanet.org that we can relay/promote, I am not assessing https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/keynote-machine-agency-infrastructure-for-creative-automation/

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-media.libreplanet.org | GNU MediaGoblin

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-media.libreplanet.org | Keynote: Machine agency: Infrastructure for creative automation — GNU MediaGoblin

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*now

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Yes, the talk by Nathan Proctor was useful.

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DRM and DCMA threaten society in general

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More abstractly, DRM is a matter of monopolies.

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Louis Rossman talks about the problem of monopolies on repair parts.

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can you get me direct link to ogg or webm of Rossman's better works?

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Just going from the titles this looks interesting:

https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/technopolice-one-year-of-activism-against-surveillance-technologies/

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Rossman is on Oddysee, I'll have to look into how to download or export.

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-media.libreplanet.org | Technopolice: One year of activism against surveillance technologies — GNU MediaGoblin

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ok, good

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LBRY is the underlying framework

May 16 09:54

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back in a bit

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LBRY /Odysee seems to have MP4 but not an option for WebM

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I wonder how much quality would be lost in transcoding.

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if this worth adding? https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/locking-the-web-open-a-decentralized-web-that-can-operate-as-free-software-does/

May 16 10:08

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-media.libreplanet.org | Locking the Web open: A decentralized web that can operate as free software does — GNU MediaGoblin

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I'd rather not add mp4s

May 16 10:08

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This one seems hit the nail on the head,

https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/an-intellectual-property-red-pill-the:a

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but since he is driving and concentrating (rightly so) on that, he

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takes about 4x as long to get to the point.

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-odysee.com | An intellectual property red pill; the REAL reason for Right to Repair opposition.

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gut feeling says odysee will go up in flames like lbry, one way or another (no biz model)

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/05/vaccine-platforms-and-limited-global.html?showComment=1621075090351#c5107276843913478261

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Brewster Kahle's talk, tech issues aside (several technical issues), is very on-topic for TR (so far; still watching)

May 16 10:13

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this is new and on topic: https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/right-to-repair/

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-media.libreplanet.org | Right to Repair — GNU MediaGoblin

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Ok. I'll look soon.

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Back in a few hours.

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Vaccine platforms and limited global production capacity: what is to be done? - The IPKat

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"All the observations in the article are very correct, but surely the real take home message of the pandemic when it comes to vaccine technology is that the developing world need to be helped to build their own R&D so that they have the ability to respond to the problems they face. This crisis has demonstrated the interdependence countries have with each other. It will be tragic in the UK if the Indian variant takes hold and

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people who have been vaccinated are also susceptible to it, but it would demonstrate that we have a vested interest in making sure the virus disappears from every country."

https://youtu.be/nvVafMi0l68

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https://youtu.be/RTbrXiIzUt4

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It's the instersection of several areas. Monopolistic practices are at or

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near the core. So is Freedom 0 from the GNU Free Software Definition.

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DRM is probably the main obstacle to Freedom 0

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.youtube.com | We need Action - Right to Repair Explained - YouTube

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.youtube.com | What Is Right To Repair? - YouTube

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maybe make clips from those (fair use) as ogg/webm?

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We should probably find the segments which focus on the software aspects

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those were good overviews but as mentioned they focus on hardware

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I'd point out that almost no hardware is without firmware (software) these

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days.