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Current Newswire: Mailing Lists Are Parties. Or They Should Be. Project: Building An All-Text Linux Workstation Cool: Or Hot? Linux really making your coffee, live a linux coffee machine Editor's Note: All This Great Technology Just to Reinvent Television Kubuntu is not Ubuntu Claws Mail: Mail with Attitude SimplyMEPIS 8.5 RC3 Is Here, the Final Release Candidate Ten Years of OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org Project of the Month: the Irish community Intel Atom: NVIDIA ION vs. Radeon HD 4330 Graphics Systems Engineer Sr - Solaris - Linux (TX) Next Step Systems US-TX-Houston Post A Job | Post A Resume A No-Fly Zone to Protect Linux From Patent Trolls Dec 9, 2008, 13 :35 UTC (10 Talkback[s]) (3423 reads) (Other stories by Roger Parloff) "The most novel feature of the new program, to be known as Linux Defenders, will be its call to independent open-source software developers all over the world to start submitting their new software inventions to Linux Defenders (Web site due to be operational Tuesday) so that the group's attorneys and engineers can, for no charge, help shape, structure, and document the invention in the form of a "defensive publication." "Linux Defenders will then also see to it that the publication, duly attributing authorship of the invention to the developer who submitted it, is filed on the IP.com Web site, a database used by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and other patent examiners throughout the world when they are trying to determine whether a proposed patent is truly novel, as any patentable invention is supposed to be." Complete Story Related Stories: Is the Era of Open Source Legal Stupidity Over?(Nov 25, 2008) McDonald's Sandwich Patent(Nov 24, 2008) The Microsoft-Novell Linux deal: Two years later(Nov 19, 2008) Answering Gene Quinn, Patent Attorney - Updated(Nov 17, 2008) Bill Gates' New Career? Patent Troll For Nathan Myhrvold?(Nov 12, 2008) The Practical Problem With Software Patents (Nov 12, 2008) Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat     Talkback(s) Name  and Date   Software Patents    Tony OBryan Dec 9, 2008, 13:52:45     Re: Software Patents    sdfgfdopdkf;sdfad Dec 9, 2008, 14:12:29     OR WHY not stop stealing idea's    Darryl Dec 9, 2008, 15:41:00     Linuxtoday    sadfdsfdsfads Dec 9, 2008, 15:57:15     Re: OR WHY not stop stealing idea's    Rainer Weikusat Dec 9, 2008, 16:11:19     IP.com    JJS Dec 9, 2008, 18:31:29     degrees of effort    Steve Stites Dec 9, 2008, 19:45:05     With Respect to Windows    John Dec 9, 2008, 20:44:21     Hi, I'm Larry,    carlos Dec 9, 2008, 22:02:25     Re: OR WHY not stop stealing idea's    blackhole Dec 10, 2008, 19:25:24     Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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