[GNHLUG] GNHLUG, October 4th, "Patent Absurdity"

Ted Roche tedroche at tedroche.com
Fri Oct 1 13:54:45 EDT 2010


Q: What do these companies have in common?

The Green Bay Packers, Boca Raton Resort & Club, Burlington Coat
Factory, Caterpillar, Continental Airlines, Ford Motor, J Crew, Kraft
Foods, OfficeMax, Sears, Tire Kingdom, Walgreen, Wal-mart.

A: All of them have been sued for infringing a software patent.

The first Monday of the month, October 4th, is the regular date for the
CentraLUG meeting. We'll be airing the documentary, "Patent Absurdity, "
funded by FSF [1], copyright by Luca Lucarini and licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license[2], and available
from at http://patentabsurdity.com/ Hear from: Mark Webbink, Jesse
Vincent, Richard M. Stallman, Karen Sander, Dan Ravischer, Ciarán
O'Riordan, Joe Mullin, Eben Moglen, Timothy B. Lee, Ben Klemens, Mishi
Choudhary, Peter Brown, Dan Bricklin, and James Bessen.

In addition, we'll have plenty of time for Q&A, discussion of upcoming
meetings, mutual support, etc.

We'll be meeting at the NHTI Library, Institute Drive in Concord. The
Library is the large building close to the main parking lot, with a
clock tower. The main entrance is on the quad side, opposite the parking
lot, and we'll be in Room 146  - head straight to the back, then take a
left.

Hope to see you there!

[1] http://patentabsurdity.com/about.html
[2] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

-- 
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com

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