Karen and Bradley play and discuss Panel on
Patents, moderated by Karen Sandler, with Ciarán O'Riordan, Benjamin Henrion, and Deb Nicholson
from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.


Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:35)


This American Life issued a
retraction of the story we mentioned on 0x24.
This American Life released a transcript or 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 Linux
System Definition which defines the only patents available
for licensing by OIN licensees, was unilaterally updated recently
without consulting the Free Software community.

Keith
Bergelt of OIN will speak at Linux Collaboration 2012 on the Legal
track, which Bradley is chairing (35:29)

OIN
is a for-profit company. (37:54)

IBM
has attacked Free Software projects with patents, such as
TurboHercules (39:22)
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 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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