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Summary: Personal perspective on the subject of patents and software patents in particular In [cref 50561 part 1] I mostly explained my history wrt software patents. In the news this morning I found yet more aggression with software patents meeting a barrier in Eastern Texas: In a legal victory with potential implications for many US […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Summary: A ramble about the changing nature of Microsoft FUD, especially against GNU/Linux At Microsoft, the days of ignoring and laughing are over. The company is now attacking its rivals with software patents, having mostly neglected attacks on rivals — notably Linux — based on verbal attacks (legal threats) and ridicule of technical nature. Microsoft’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Summary: Allegations of “Negativism” in Techrights and in “Boycott Novell” are put in perspective. THIS is not a proper episode of TechBytes Video. I have been testing a few things in order to improve future delivery (when Tim and I both find time) and in the mean time I do try to convey some messages […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Direct download as Ogg (0:58:29, 11.1 MB) | High-quality MP3 (20.3 MB) Summary: An audio-only version of yesterday’s episode, hopefully with future recurrence of such a version for video shows Yesterday’s [cref 48069 video episode] suffered some audio encoding issues, which led to loss of some information. It seemed reasonable to reach out for the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Pilot for a new show that will come in the form of video