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Interview With The SourceForge Community Manager
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| SourceForge is one of the most important entities in the Open Source
| movement. They manage the geek mecca of slashdot, sell geek paraphernalia
| that makes all our dreams come true at thinkgeek, manage Freshmeat the mega
| app hub, and administer over 170,000 Open Source projects at SourceForge.
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http://hehe2.net/advocacy/interview-with-a-sourceforge-community-manager/
Coders' Rights Project
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| EFF's Coders' Rights Project protects programmers and developers engaged in
| cutting-edge exploration of technology in our world. Security and encryption
| researchers help build a safer future for all of us using digital
| technologies, yet too many legitimate researchers face serious legal
| challenges that prevent or inhibit their work. These challenges come from the
| Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and
| state computer crime laws, among others. The Coders Rights Project builds on
| EFF's longstanding work protecting researchers through education, legal
| defense, amicus briefs and involvement in the community with the goal of
| promoting innovation and safeguarding the rights of curious tinkerers and
| hackers on the digital frontier.
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http://www.eff.org/issues/coders
Related:
A Patent Lie
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| Microsoft sang a very different tune in 1991. In a memo to his
| senior executives, Bill Gates wrote, "If people had understood how
| patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented,
| and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete
| standstill today." Mr. Gates worried that "some large company will
| patent some obvious thing" and use the patent to "take as much of
| our profits as they want."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/opinion/09lee.html
Who is the world's biggest patent troll?
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| In two consecutive days, The Wall Street Journal presented two different
| answers. The first is not surprising: Intellectual Ventures, the brainchild
| of ex-Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold. It's now out "to raise as much as
| $1 billion to help develop and patent inventions, many of them from
| universities in Asia."
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9816163-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Playing Microsoft Patent Poker
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| This time though, while Ballmer slinks away to try to con … convince people
| that Microsoft Unified Communications somehow offers people more than what
| Cisco's VOIP (voice over IP) been offering customers for years, a patent
| attack finally launches at Linux. Specifically, IP Innovation, a subsidiary
| of Acacia Technologies Group, has filed a patent infringement claim against
| Linux distributors Novell and Red Hat.
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| So was it just timing, or was it something more? Let's take a look at the
| players.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2201579,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
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