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Some Open-Source Software for Your Delectation

2017-07-24, 21:54 2017-07-24, 21:54 programming / workOne Comment

I have made a thing, and pushed it out into the world. Well, really, this is me pushing it out into the world, because nobody will have noticed it before now, and with this, there’s a chance they might. A couple of months ago Manton Reece and Brent Simmons announced …

Software patents: dead in Europe

2005-07-06, 15:31 2005-07-06, 15:31 UncategorizedLeave a comment

In other good news, over on BoingBoing, Cory is telling us that Euro software patents are dead: The European Parliament voted 648 to 14 to reject the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive. The bill was reportedly rejected because, politicians said, it pleased no-one in its current form. Responding to the rejection …