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Open Source Needs Our Help: Stand up for Open Source Software Patent Defense! (tutanota.com)
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Open Source Needs Our Help: Stand up for Open Source Software Patent Defense! (tutanota.com)
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Open Source Needs Our Help: Stand up for Open Source Software Patent Defense! (tutanota.com)
Linus Torvalds -- Creator of Linux -- defends gun regulation, woke communists, womens rights AND trans rights. Linux is political! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

That's true. It's the human element that creates the political attribute.

Linus Torvalds -- Creator of Linux -- defends gun regulation, woke communists, womens rights AND trans rights. Linux is political! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You are thinking of software as if it exists in a vacuum. Software that is libre is a political statement. Software that is proprietary is also a political statement. Lemmy choosing to be decentralized/federated/interoperable is also a conscious political decision just as Apple chose to create its own proprietary ecosystem instead of caring about interoperability.

Stand up for Open Source Software Patent Defense in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

You may be interested in [email protected].

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Harmonization of European patent systems - ESP Wiki (wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org)
 

On 1 June 2023, the Unified Patent Court and the unitary patent were entered into force. Simply put, this means that we will soon have software patents in Europe that are effective automatically in the entire European Union.

Hardly anyone talks about this, but it is bound to become a problem. I am currently editing relevant entries on ESP Wiki. This specific entry is about the history and dangers of harmonizing the European patent systems (spoiler alert: the EU had been trying to create such a system ever since its creation).

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Stand up for Open Source Software Patent Defense (www.linuxfoundation.org)
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Transcript: The state of software patents in 2022 with Panos Alevropoulos – End Software Patents (endsoftwarepatents.org)
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Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be patent trolls (ipde.com)
Blocking Google+Amazon+Cloudflare? [asking for a friend] in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can find some gigantic filter lists out there. Check https://filterlists.com.

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Asymmetric numeral systems - ESP Wiki (wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org)
 

This is a new ESP Wiki entry explaining the situation around software patents on a new data compression algorithm.

The original author, Jarek Duda, released his work into the public domain. Despite his intentions, Big Tech companies are attempting to patent his technology around the world. In early 2022, Microsoft registered a software patent on ANS. Google tried to do the same a few years ago but failed. We can't catch them all.

The free software community is fighting an unfair battle. Megacorporations are stealing people's work by imposing unjustified patent rights. The patent offices grant software patents despite obvious existence of prior art.

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AMD Zen microarchitecture and Intel's Ocean Cove patent (nitter.fdn.fr)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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See Hacker News comments.

It is correct to refer to GNU/Linux as GNU/Linux in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

Someone on Hacker News suggested the name "Gnux" instead of "GNU/Linux".

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ESP Wiki is looking for moderators (wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/193809

If you are familiar with software patents and would like to moderate an excellent database of campaign material against software patents, please respond below. This post will be pinned until ESP Wiki is sufficiently moderated.

ESP Wiki was created in 2008 as the main resource for activists, programmers, lawyers, and policy makers with the goal of abolishing software patents. In the past, it has worked as a community forum for FSF's amicus briefs to courts and has been cited by legal journals and articles. Lately it has gotten some serious updates: a new logo, a modernized theme, better categorization, brand-new custom wiki templates, etc.

It is not required to have a legal background, but you should be at least comfortable with reading legal information. You should also have a general understanding of basic legal procedure around patent law. But even if you don't know much, this is a great opportunity to learn some interesting details about this topic.

Do not hesitate to contact me at any point; this post will be up for a while.

You can read more about the End Software Patents campaign in the community's description.

Links:

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ESP Wiki is looking for moderators (wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/193809

If you are familiar with software patents and would like to moderate an excellent database of campaign material against software patents, please respond below. This post will be pinned until ESP Wiki is sufficiently moderated.

ESP Wiki was created in 2008 as the main resource for activists, programmers, lawyers, and policy makers with the goal of abolishing software patents. In the past, it has worked as a community forum for FSF's amicus briefs to courts and has been cited by legal journals and articles. Lately it has gotten some serious updates: a new logo, a modernized theme, better categorization, brand-new custom wiki templates, etc.

It is not required to have a legal background, but you should be at least comfortable with reading legal information. You should also have a general understanding of basic legal procedure around patent law. But even if you don't know much, this is a great opportunity to learn some interesting details about this topic.

Do not hesitate to contact me at any point; this post will be up for a while.

You can read more about the End Software Patents campaign in the community's description.

Links:

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ESP Wiki is looking for moderators (wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/193809

If you are familiar with software patents and would like to moderate an excellent database of campaign material against software patents, please respond below. This post will be pinned until ESP Wiki is sufficiently moderated.

ESP Wiki was created in 2008 as the main resource for activists, programmers, lawyers, and policy makers with the goal of abolishing software patents. In the past, it has worked as a community forum for FSF's amicus briefs to courts and has been cited by legal journals and articles. Lately it has gotten some serious updates: a new logo, a modernized theme, better categorization, brand-new custom wiki templates, etc.

It is not required to have a legal background, but you should be at least comfortable with reading legal information. You should also have a general understanding of basic legal procedure around patent law. But even if you don't know much, this is a great opportunity to learn some interesting details about this topic.

Do not hesitate to contact me at any point; this post will be up for a while.

You can read more about the End Software Patents campaign in the community's description.

Links:

in which community can i post a review? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Not a lemmy community, but have you checked lib.reviews?

sdfasdf in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

This is the oldest Lemmy post I could find :)

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