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Archive for April, 2008
ACLU: abstract patents violates constitution
Posted in aclu, censorship, ffii, patents, politics on April 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
American Civil Liberties Union has filed a brief about free speech issues of an application for an abstract patent. FFII says hi; it’s great to see a major civil rights organization to bring this up in the patents sphere. With enough exposure, hopefully the insanity of business and software patents may come to an end [...]
OOXML use cases
Posted in iso, microsoft, ooxml on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
ISO has now rendered a decision, and the fight over OOXML could be over soon. Specifically, while there have been no reported irregularities, countries have available another two months to raise concerns. Apparently e.g. Norway has already done so, but I’m sure that misunderstanding will be cleared out shortly. In any case, there are many [...]
