Thursday, February 3, 2005

Slashdot: EU Software Patents Dead Again Good news Slashdot: reports EU Software Patents Dead Again. Good. Patents are for physical inventions. Copyright is for code. You should be able to protect, with a copyright, your expression of an idea in code. You should not be able to lock up, with a patent, an idea for your exclusive use. 11:47:19 AM    comment []

DLSLUG tonight: Hacking the Linksys WRT54G with Sveasoft firmware I'll be presenting "Hacking the LinkSys WRT54G with Sveasoft firmware" tonight to the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group, a reprise of my November presentation to the Central NH Linux User Group, both chapters of the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group The presentation was edited with the Taco HTML Editor, http://www.tacosw.com on the Mac and with SciTE, http://www.scintilla.org/; on Windows and Linux. Interoperability is Good. The templates for the document and instructions on their use are from the Simple Standards-based Slide Show System, S5 developed by Eric Meyer and available at http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ under a Creative Commons license. Thanks, Eric! 11:22:51 AM    comment []

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