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Pushing Back Against Software Patents and More

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Summary: Techrights has been working behind the scenes to curtail software patenting; more information will come out soon

THE Techrights Web site (and Gemini capsule) has been less busy than usual lately. But there was a lot going on behind the scenes.



Aside from Daily Links containing more links like this one, we've collected a number of relevant papers as "a review of two or three of the key papers reminding us that software patents harm innovation would be of use in several ways," to quote an associate.

"...there was a lot going on behind the scenes."We're sitting on a lot of material at the moment -- material that will sooner or later get published, a lot of it next year. Copyrights and patents will be of particular focus because there are articles such as this one trending; "that is the RIAA making similar arguments as the FOSS community has made against Microsoft GitHub's Co-pilot which steals code," our associate notes.

TechDirt has just said "that Copilot strikes me as a tool that replaces googling for stack overflow answers."

This is false because "stack overflow" is NOT copyleft.

"We sadly lack the time to cover as many topics as we'd like."Either way, we have a ton of material about Copilot on the way and we're also in touch with politicians regarding software patents. Some time around Christmas we plan to publish all the letters we received from a copyright troll (assuming we've been left alone permanently).

So, in summary, expect a lot more about copyrights, GitHub scandals, software patents, and the EPO. There's no complete timeline just yet. It's very much priority-based.

Another topic we wish to cover soon is Microsoft's collapse in Windows revenue, set aside the layoffs. There are serious implications. We sadly lack the time to cover as many topics as we'd like.

The next (and final) video will be about today's main article.

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