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| Professor Larry Lessig joins FSF Board of Directors |
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By brian, Section News
Posted on Wed Apr 14th, 2004 at 15:34:18 GMT |
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[From FSF] The Free Software Foundation is pleased to announce that Lawrence Lessig has been elected to the Foundation's Board of Directors. Professor Lessig is based at Stanford University, and is the author of many key books on the ideas about freedom in the digital age, including his recently published book Free Culture.
Professor Lessig has been a strong supporter of FSF for many years, and previously won FSF's Award for the Advancement of Free Software for his extensive work educating the public about the important issues of freedom in the digital age. Full press release from FSF.org.
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| Reuters article on patent litigation |
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By brian, Section News
Posted on Mon Apr 12th, 2004 at 16:38:44 GMT |
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Reuters has a report on new wave of companies founded to extract licensing fees from existing patents in the wake of recent legal cases, such as the $900 million Sun-Microsoft patent licensing settlement.
The article highlights the company Intellectual Ventures, founded by the former Microsoft executives, as a key player which has raised between $250 million and $400 million to build up a war chest of patents. According to one lawyer quoted in the article "people know what they're doing and they are afraid". Original story from Reuters.com.
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| The gloves come off - Round Two in the EU fight over Software Patents |
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By brian, Section News
Posted on Sat Apr 10th, 2004 at 13:33:44 GMT |
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[From FFII] After months of closed back room discussions, the EU Presidency proposed draft text on software patents has rejected all clarifying amendments made by the European Parliament and instead pushes for direct patentability of computer programs, data structures and process descriptions. A last ditch attempt by the Luxembourg delegation to ensure interoperability with patented standards was rejected.
FFII is calling on its supporters to mobilise for a "net strike" and a rally in Brussels on April 14th under the slogan "No Software Patents -- Power to the Parliament", to repeat the impact of actions in the run-up to September 2003, which helped convince the European Parliament to vote clearly against software patents. The latest press release is available from FFII.org.
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| Book Review: Universal Principles of Design - Lidwell, Holden & Butler |
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By brian, Section News
Posted on Sat Apr 10th, 2004 at 13:33:36 GMT |
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This book contains an accessible summary of 100 universal design principles. Although mainly intended for graphic design, the fascinating feature of this book is that the principles can be applied to many areas including software -- both in User Interfaces and code itself.
(357 words in story) Full Story
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| OFSET report on Free Software Education Conference |
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By brian, Section News
Posted on Sat Apr 10th, 2004 at 13:33:24 GMT |
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The Organization for Free Software in Education and Teaching (OFSET) has posted a report on the free software education event held on the 20th of March at the CDDP of Mont-de-Marsan. Xvid2 videos are also available. Details from Ofset.org (in French).
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