0x25: FOSDEM 2012 Patents Panel

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x25_Patents-Panel.ogg"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_ogg_button.png"/></a> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x25_Patents-Panel.mp3"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in MP3 format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_mp3_button.png"/></a> </p> <p> <p>Karen and Bradley play and discuss <a href="http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/event/software_patent_panel">Panel on Patents</a>, moderated by <a href="http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/speaker/karen_sandler">Karen Sandler</a>, with <a href="http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/speaker/ciaran_o_riordan">Ciar&aacute;n O'Riordan</a>, <a href="http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/speaker/benjamin_henrion">Benjamin Henrion</a>, and <a href="http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/speaker/deb_nicholson">Deb Nicholson</a> from the <a href="http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/legal_issues_devroom">FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom</a>.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:35)</h4> <ul> <li><cite>This American Life</cite> issued <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/460/retraction">a retraction</a> of the story we mentioned on <a href="http://faif.us/cast/2012/mar/13/0x24/">0x24</a>. <cite>This American Life</cite> released <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/460/transcript">a transcript</a> or <a href="http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/jomamashouse/ismymamashouse/460.mp3">mp3 of the audio</a> of the retraction. (02:21)</li> <li>Karen and Bradley introduce the panel.</li> </ul> <h4>Segment 1 (03:58)</h4> <p>This is the recording of the panel. Some of the questions aren't completely audible, but Dan did a pretty good job boosting it in places.</p> <h4>Segment 2 (32:21)</h4> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/bilski.ibm.pdf">IBM's amicus brief in Bilski</a> clearly shows that IBM is pro-software patent. (33:48)</li> <li>The <a href="http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/pat_linuxdef.php">Linux System Definition</a> which defines the <em>only</em> patents available for licensing by OIN licensees, was unilaterally updated recently without consulting the Free Software community.</li> <li><a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit/bergelt">Keith Bergelt of OIN will speak at Linux Collaboration 2012</a> on the Legal track, which Bradley is chairing (35:29)</li> <li><a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=106619925">OIN is a for-profit company</a>. (37:54)</li> <li><a href="http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/04/ibm-breaks-oss-patent-promise-targets-mainframe-emulator.ars">IBM has attacked Free Software projects with patents, such as TurboHercules</a> (39:22)</li> <li><a href="http://lxnews.org/2011/01/12/ibm-biggest-patent-holder-for-2010/">IBM is the largest software patent holder in the world</a>. (44:27)</li> <li>Red Hat refuses to grant a patent license for patent use in Free software, they have only a <a href="http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html">weak promise</a> that allows them to sell of patents to others who may enforce against Free Software projects, or which could be revoked. (46:26)</li> </ul> <hr width="80%"/> <p>Send feedback and comments on the cast to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">&lt;[email protected]&gt;</a>. You can keep in touch with <a href="https://faif.us">Free as in Freedom</a> on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by <a href="http://identi.ca/conservancy">following Conservancy on identi.ca</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/conservancy">and Twitter</a>.</p> <p>Free as in Freedom is produced by <a href="http://danlynch.org/blog/">Dan Lynch</a> of <a href="http://danlynch.org/">danlynch.org</a>. Theme music written and performed by <a href="http://www.miketarantino.com">Mike Tarantino</a> with <a href="http://www.charliepaxson.com">Charlie Paxson</a> on drums.</p> <p><a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png" hspace=10 /></a> The content of <span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound" rel="dc:type">this audcast</span>, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0)</a>. </p>