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Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SoftwarePatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwarePatents</a> should be <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/illegal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#illegal</a> as they only exist to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#profit</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ValueRemoving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ValueRemoving</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RentSeekers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RentSeekers</a>! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmyCy5pRMSg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmyCy5pRMSg</a>

UK<a href="https://www.europesays.com/uk/153760/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/uk/153760/</a> Charter Loses Bid to Dismiss, Transfer Internet Patent Suit <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Internet</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/notice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#notice</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PatentInfringement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PatentInfringement</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SoftwarePatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwarePatents</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnitedKingdom</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/venue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#venue</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/witnesses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#witnesses</a>

T_X<a href="https://chaos.social/@dentangle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@dentangle</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/@librecast" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@librecast</a> <a href="https://floss.social/@gstreamer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@gstreamer</a> (also, I was told that <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/NetworkCoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NetworkCoding</a>, other than a simple XOR, were a patent mine field... so much regarding no <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/SoftwarePatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwarePatents</a> in the <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/EuropeanUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EuropeanUnion</a>...)

KelsonUSPol, Patent Trolls, Bad Legislation

GNU/Matt :fedora: :kde:Only 1170 days until the last patents on <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/h264" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#h264</a> codecs expire!*checks watch... come on<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/fedora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fedora</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rpmfusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rpmfusion</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/softwarepatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#softwarepatents</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/codec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#codec</a> <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_MPEG-4_AVC_expired_yet%3F" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_MPEG-4_AVC_expired_yet%3F</a>

Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Me: "Obi Wan never told you why <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GNOMEShell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GNOMEShell</a> still uses the VP8 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/codec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#codec</a> to record screencasts, instead of newer codecs…"Them: "He told me enough! He told me <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GNOME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GNOME</a> hates its users!"Me: "No. It's mostly a temporary performance tradeoff around a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> middleware & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/softwarepatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#softwarepatents</a> problem."Them: "No… No… It's not true… That's impossible!"Me: "Search the commits log. You KNOW it to be true."Them: "DO NOT WANT"Source: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@nekohayo/112615135771775130" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@nekohayo/112615135771775130</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freedesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freedesktop</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/softwarefreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#softwarefreedom</a>

FOSS UnitedSoftware patents and litigation create costly hurdles for innovation. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) promotes open collaboration, allowing developers to build on each other's work. By bypassing restrictive patents, FOSS drives technological progress and keeps innovation accessible to everyone.<a href="https://mas.to/tags/fossunited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fossunited</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/unitedbyfoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#unitedbyfoss</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/softwarepatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#softwarepatents</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/patentlitigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#patentlitigation</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://chaos.social/@Madic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Madic</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@lucasmz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@lucasmz</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/@CppGuy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@CppGuy</a> well, for that there are better solutions like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NextcloudHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NextcloudHub</a> by <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/@nextcloud" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@nextcloud</a> ...<ul><li><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Outlook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Outlook</a> is cringe and the lack of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Exchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Exchange</a> support of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Thunderbird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thunderbird</a> is solely dependent on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a> weaponizing <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SoftwarePatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwarePatents</a>.</li><li>If Microsoft wanted it they could make that work...</li></ul>Just like the impossibility to make Outlook comply to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GDPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GDPR</a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BDSG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BDSG</a> is solely their fault and could be fixed by them if they wanted so...<ul><li>They chose not to because they know they won't face <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/accoubtabikity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#accoubtabikity</a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/consequences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#consequences</a>...</li></ul>

Jan VlugVery sad to learn that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mozilla</a> Location Service (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MLS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MLS</a>) is winding down.Even more that this this is partially a result of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/softwarepatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#softwarepatents</a>.Will someone step up to take this over? Maybe the some organizations or companies supporting software <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freedom</a> could step up?I think here of maybe organisations like: <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/@NGIZero" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@NGIZero</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/@sovtechfund" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@sovtechfund</a>, <a href="https://social.librem.one/@purism" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@purism</a>.Do you have any suggestions?Let's stay out of the power of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#capitalistic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bigtech</a>.<a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/03/mozilla-location-services-axed" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/03/mozilla-location-services-axed</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#foss</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a>

MrCopilotGreat news,but...Can I turn up more than one speaker at a time again yet?Oh, wow, I see... Possibly<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SoftwarePatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwarePatents</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Patents</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Sonos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sonos</a><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/10/23911491/google-home-grouping-features-now-available-sonos" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/10/23911491/google-home-grouping-features-now-available-sonos</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:Why <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LoadingScreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoadingScreens</a> were so boring: Because <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NAMCO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NAMCO</a> had <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/patented" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#patented</a> essentially <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MiniGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MiniGames</a> during <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LoadingTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoadingTime</a>"... <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07trilIiilk&t=1029s" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07trilIiilk&t=1029s</a>Seriously, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SoftwarePatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwarePatents</a> should be <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/illegal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#illegal</a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/abolished" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#abolished</a>! <a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US5718632A/en" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://patents.google.com/patent/US5718632A/en</a>

Strypey<a href="https://hostux.social/@fsf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@fsf</a> > Protect developer freedom. Abolish software patentsNZ did it. You can too.<a href="https://www.nzedge.com/news/new-zealand-abolishes-software-patents/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.nzedge.com/news/new-zealand-abolishes-software-patents/</a><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/SoftwarePatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwarePatents</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/SoftwareFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedom</a>

Panos AlevropoulosA transcript of my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LibrePlanet2022" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LibrePlanet2022</a> talk on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/softwarepatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#softwarepatents</a> is now live on the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EndSoftwarePatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EndSoftwarePatents</a> blog.Thanks <a href="https://hostux.social/@fsf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@fsf</a> for publishing it!<a href="https://endsoftwarepatents.org/2023/05/transcript-the-state-of-software-patents-in-2022-by-panos-alevropoulos/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://endsoftwarepatents.org/2023/05/transcript-the-state-of-software-patents-in-2022-by-panos-alevropoulos/</a>

Cory DoctorowLong thread/5

Webmink In DraftSEPs Cut Both Ways<a href="https://the.webm.ink/seps-cut-both-ways" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://the.webm.ink/seps-cut-both-ways</a>

Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿<a href="https://hostux.social/@fsf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@fsf</a> yes, <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/softwarepatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#softwarepatents</a> fundamentally suck. We managed to get them banned here in Aotearoa NZ - see <a href="https://softwarepatents.org.nz" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://softwarepatents.org.nz</a>

IT NewsFSF: Chrome’s JPEG XL killing shows how the web works under browser hegemony - Enlarge / When Google, whose Chromium/Chrome-related browsers make up 8... - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1932231" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/?p=1932231</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/freesoftwarefoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freesoftwarefoundation</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/imagecompression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#imagecompression</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/softwarepatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#softwarepatents</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/googlechrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#googlechrome</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/imageformats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#imageformats</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/webstandards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#webstandards</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#compression</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/standards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#standards</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/chromium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chromium</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#firefox</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mozilla</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#patents</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/biz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biz</a>⁢ <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chrome</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#google</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/jpegxl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jpegxl</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/fsf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fsf</a>

Kadin<a href="https://mspsocial.net/@t54r4n1" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@t54r4n1</a> I wouldn't discount sexism being there, but the part of a 'recipe' that can't be copyrighted is the abstract procedure of what ingredients get added in what order, etc.A specific written recipe (blog entry, cookbook page, etc.) *can* and generally is copyrighted by default. Working around the copyright generally involves rewriting the recipe in your own words.Likewise, an *algorithm* can't be copyrighted, but an implementation of it written as code can be. Working around the copyright similarly involves doing a re-implementation of it, writing the code yourself.The crap part is when we allowed algorithms to be de facto *patented* (even though they legally shouldn't be!) by allowing the "application of" loophole to be stretched almost infinitely large. IMO it's the patent issue, not copyright, that is really problematic w/r/t software. <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/IntellectualProperty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IntellectualProperty</a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/SoftwarePatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwarePatents</a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/USPTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPTO</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@nixCraft</a> Sadly, that's exactly what <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Oracly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Oracly</a> did when they were allowed to buy <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SunMicrosystems</a> and basically destroy <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OpenSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSolaris</a> as well as declare the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SoftwarePatents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwarePatents</a> - <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ceasefire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ceasefire</a> against <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FLOSS</a> null and invalid.

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