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Karen and Bradley play and discuss href="http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/event/software_patent_panel">Panel on
Patents, moderated by href="http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/speaker/karen_sandler">Karen Sandler, with href="http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/speaker/ciaran_o_riordan">Ciarán O'Riordan, href="http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/speaker/benjamin_henrion">Benjamin Henrion, and href="http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/speaker/deb_nicholson">Deb Nicholson
from the href="http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/legal_issues_devroom">FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:35)

• This American Life issued href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/460/retraction">a
  retraction of the story we mentioned on 0x24.
  This American Life released href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/460/transcript">a transcript or href="http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/jomamashouse/ismymamashouse/460.mp3">mp3
  of the audio of the retraction. (02:21)
• Karen and Bradley introduce the panel.

Segment 1 (03:58)

This is the recording of the panel. Some of the questions aren't
completely audible, but Dan did a pretty good job boosting it in
places.

Segment 2 (32:21)

• IBM's amicus
  brief in Bilski clearly shows that IBM is pro-software
  patent. (33:48)
• The href="http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/pat_linuxdef.php">Linux
  System Definition which defines the only patents available
  for licensing by OIN licensees, was unilaterally updated recently
  without consulting the Free Software community.
• href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit/bergelt">Keith
  Bergelt of OIN will speak at Linux Collaboration 2012 on the Legal
  track, which Bradley is chairing (35:29)
• href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=106619925">OIN
  is a for-profit company. (37:54)
• href="http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/04/ibm-breaks-oss-patent-promise-targets-mainframe-emulator.ars">IBM
  has attacked Free Software projects with patents, such as
  TurboHercules (39:22)
• href="http://lxnews.org/2011/01/12/ibm-biggest-patent-holder-for-2010/">IBM
  is the largest software patent holder in the world. (44:27)
• Red Hat refuses to grant a patent license for patent use in Free
  software, they have only a href="http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html">weak promise
  that allows them to sell of patents to others who may enforce against
  Free Software projects, or which could be revoked. (46:26)

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