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
Updated a restaurant
Created a bench
Updated a cafe
But I think my favourite photo was of this Carrion Crow in flight.
#Photography #BirdsOfFediverse #BirdPhotography #Nature
The new birds I saw, were mostly too far away to get good photos.
But I saw my first Spoonbill, Corn Bunting, and a flock of Black-tailed Godwits.
#BirdPhotography #BirdsOfFediverse
I had a lovely walk around RSPB Bowers Marsh yesterday, where I saw some expected birds, and a bunch of new species.
When I got there, there was this welcome committee of Starlings.
#BirdPhotography #nature #BirdsOfFediverse #Birds #Photography #RSPB
RSPB Bowers Marsh
Created 2 benches
I hiked 11.3km in 3h31m08s
Updated a pub
Updated a pub
Updated 4 pubs; Confirmed a pub
Created a restaurant
I walked 0.8km in 9m31s
I walked 2.1km in 16m42s
I walked 4.7km in 48m42s
I walked 7.4km in 1h16m10s
Updated a fast_food
Updated a cafe, a pet shop, and a bench; Confirmed a cafe, a convenience shop, and a motorcycle_repair shop
I walked 5.0km in 1h2m27s
I walked 1.1km in 10m08s
Updated a cafe; Confirmed 3 convenience shops, a fast_food, and a laundry shop
Created a fitness_centre; Updated an event_caterer office and a social_facility; Confirmed a restaurant and a pharmacy
I walked 7.6km in 1h29m58s
Updated a pub
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