New Film: 'Patent Absurdity' - watch it online now

patentabsurdity.com — Patent Absurdity explores the case of software patents, the history of judicial activism that led to their rise, and the harm being done to software developers and the wider economy. (30 minutes) Apr 16, 2010 View in Crawl 4

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cmister Apr 16, 2010

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Good article on this film from Glyn Moody at Computer World <a class="user" href="http://ur1.ca/vg7x" rel="nofollow">http://ur1.ca/vg7x</a>&quot;What we really need is an extremely gentle introduction to this whole area that requires little strenuous thought and yet manages to convey the complex issues clearly. That's precisely what a new video called “Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system” aims to do. It's been put together with support from the Free Software Foundation and made, needless to say, using entirely free tools, and available (from 5pm BST today) to watch or download in Ogg Theora (with Vorbis audio) format, a format unencumbered by software patents."

freedeb Apr 16, 2010

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This page has a sponsored link from Microsoft entitled "How to be Successful in Business. (VIDEO)" which I think is a pretty funny juxtaposition, since patents are are only successful as long as we put up with them.

shubhkarman Jun 17, 2010