OSCOM Day 3
I had to give a talk at 9.15, the first slot of the day. It went alright, but I had the feeling that some attendees decided to sleep in. I went to the "Legal Issues" talk by Rolf Auf Der Maur, who was talking about legal issues and risk for developing Open Source; it was kinda interesting, but he made me a bit sad by saying that "Anti-Patent Activists" have no chance of winning the war here in Europe. But the discussion that followed concluded that the "activists" will definitely have an impact on how Software Patents will be implemented here in Europe.
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Derick, I never understood the problem with software patents. Can you explain how a software patent will affect the open source community?
Simple: take a few large corporations who go out and file a million broadly-written patents on stuff like taxonomies, online editing, content repositories etc. They threaten to use these against each other in a brinkmanship style environment. Business as usual.
Enter Joe Open-Source Developer, who comes up with some cool ideas on his own about a CMS. His ideas "infringe" on said patents. This is irrelevant UNTIL the open source project becomes really popular and everyone's downloading it and no-longer buying FacelessCorps' product for a squillion dollars.
So they file a civil suit against Joe and sue him into oblivion, and make the ISP take down his project, and rape his pet hampster while they're at it.
Patents are all about CONTROL, same as laws.
Now here's where you go form a band and write some Rage Against the Machine Style lyrics!
Life Line
Created 2 waste_baskets; Updated 2 bus_stops and 2 crossings
I hate this timeline.
For @fridaynightdinners I wanted to look up what the difference between Raviolo and Girasolo is.
DuckDuckGo's (non-ai variant) top three results are all AI generated content with AI generated author images, bio, and "flair".
I want stuff written by *humans*, not this AI slop BS.
Created 3 waste_baskets; Updated a waste_basket
Updated 6 crossings
Northern Lapwing On The Move
This dapper bird is having a stroll looking for lunch. I like the iridescence in its wings.
#BirdPhotography #BirdsOfFediverse #Nature #Photography #London #BirdsOfMastodon
Created a vending_machine
Updated a bus_stop
I hiked 5.4km in 2h35m46s
I walked 2.2km in 27m13s
I walked 1.6km in 32m29s
I walked 3.3km in 34m33s
Updated a confectionery shop, a massage shop, and 2 other objects; Deleted a books shop
I hiked 7.0km in 4h21m00s
Updated a deli shop and a pet_grooming shop
I walked 4.2km in 49m42s
I walked 1.4km in 10m14s
I walked 2.2km in 1h43m13s
I walked 4.4km in 1h25m00s
Updated a cafe
Updated a bar
I walked 1.7km in 19m07s
I got a new lens. It's a little bit larger, and loads heavier, than my older one.
#photography #naturephotography
I walked 1.6km in 15m10s
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