Tuesday, December 21, 2004

(Software) Patents - Time for Wisdom WebMink: "I'm personally pleased to see that Poland blocked the software patent directive at the European Commission - sneaking it in at an Agriculture meeting was a sure sign of desperation and ignored the very real problems that had become apparent in the second half of the year. My pleasure is less because my personal opposition to software patents and more because an injustice was about to be done and this has hopefully prevented it." Groklaw: "This just in. Poland refused to go along with the software patent rubber stamp." 11:11:53 AM

On Freedom John Perry Barlow lost the first round of his case against the TSA over drugs they found in his suitcase. He writes, "Last Wednesday was Bill of Rights Day. On December 15, 1791, exactly 203 years ago, the first ten amendments were added to the Constitution. It seemed a perversely appropriate occasion to get further confirmation that at least one of them was being deleted..." 8:04:29 AM

2004 Presidential Transition Taegan Goddard: "President Bush 'heads into his second term amid deep and growing public skepticism about the Iraq war, with a solid majority saying for the first time that the war was a mistake and most people believing that' Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld 'should lose his job,' according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. A new USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll also finds that a majority of Americans 'disapprove of the way the war is being run' and say Rumsfeld 'should resign.'" 7:19:27 AM

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