[SLUG] A possible speaker, do you want her?

[Al Girling]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:44:07AM GMT, John Allsopp wrote:
> Hi y'all
> 
> This <http://nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/intro/index.html> a link on
> <http://www.php.net> seems like pretty scary stuff, although it's
> clearly written with some bias.
> 
> At first glance, I'm thinking we should be doing something about this.
> 
> I have a friend who lives locally called Dr. Farrell Burnett who is a
> spectacular brain-head PhD in intellectual property and, while she may
> not know Linux, comes from our side of the argument. I've contacted
> her and she would be more than happy to come and talk to us about
> copyright, patents, and all that stuff in relation to software.
> 
> Do we want that? In the January meeting? I want her to concentrate on
> what's happening with relation to the European patents thing and then
> maybe we can throw it to a discussion. What do people think?

Sounds like a good idea to me.  The January meet should be fine as far
as I'm concerned.

Al

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Al Girling
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