FYI …
Dennis Ritchie (printf(“Goodbye, World!”)
I liked this tribute: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/rip-dmr.html http://www.muppetlabs.com/%7Ebreadbox/rip-dmr.html
#include
int main() { printf(“goodbye, dadn”); return 0; }
On 13 October 2011 23:43
#includemain() { printf(“Goodbye World”);
}
Rob Pike >https://plus.google.com/u/0/101960720994009339267/posts/101960720994009339267/posts/ENuEDDYfvKP
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—————————- Original Message —————————-
Subject: [free-software-melb] Rare opportunity on software patents
From: “Ben Sturmfels”<ben@stumbles.id.au>
Date: Tue, October 11, 2011 3:23 pm
To: australia-public-discuss@endsoftwarepatents.org
linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au
free-software-melb@lists.softwarefreedom.com.au
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Hi Folks,
The Australian government is requesting comments in a review of
“innovation patents”. Submissions close *this Friday* 14 October. This
is a rare opportunity to be heard.
Please write to<mail.acip@ipaustralia.gov.au>, explaining the problems
of software patents and pointing out that “innovation patents” are the
same, but worse. (I’ve added some notes below to help get you started.)
Important:
1. Please focus on software patents only, not patents in general.
2. Please BCC to<swpat@sturm.com.au>.
3. Try get your colleagues and organisation to co-sign.
For more on the campaign, please visit:
http://endsoftpatents.org/australia.
The ACIP review:
http://www.acip.gov.au/reviews.html#patsys
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Ben Sturmfels
Ideas for your email
====================
Please feel free use your own words and ideas too.
FYI: “Innovation patents” came about in 2000 as a replacement for “petty
patents”. They have a term of 8 years (std. patents 20 years), minimal
examination and much lower barrier of “inventiveness” – easy to get,
just as hard to defeat.
Intro ideas: software patents in general
—————————————-
- you’re in the software industry
- patents on computation and information processing do the opposite of
promoting innovation
- harmful to both software industry and society
- as such should be abolished
- you’re one of the thousands who signed the paper petition to the
House of Representatives calling for this
Body ideas: “innovation patents” are the same but worse
——————————————————-
- pose all the same risks as standard patents
- are worse because they have lower requirements for examination and
inventiveness
- should also be abolished
Closing ideas:
————–
- you wish you’d been aware of the 2009 Review of Patentable Subject
Matter so you could have commented on that too
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