0x25: FOSDEM 2012 Patents Panel

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) Send feedback and comments on the cast to . You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following FaiF on identi.ca. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of half baked media. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. For shows from 0x00 through 0x16, the content of this oggcast, the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license (CC-By-SA-3.0 Unported). For shows from 0x17 onward, the license for those materials is the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 USA license (CC-By-SA-3.0 USA).