[Gllug] Software patents

Aaron Trevena aaron.trevena at gmail.com
Thu Nov 22 14:13:15 UTC 2007


On 21/11/2007, Adrian McMenamin <adrian at newgolddream.dyndns.info> wrote:
> On Tue, November 20, 2007 10:35 pm, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 22:17 +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> >> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:11:32PM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> >> > I was at an event at NESTA tonight where George Osborne appeared to
> >> > endorse software patents. Anybody else here there and care to comment?
> >> >
> >> > http://newgolddream.dyndns.info/blog/?p=522
> >>
> >> Erm, we don't know.  Any evidence?
>
> The video is now online - look about 19 minutes in and draw your own
> conclusions. I thought it was even more threatening in retrospect than
> when i was there - others may feel differently:
>
> http://www.nesta.org.uk/mediaplayer/index.aspx?channel=21

How very 'innovative'  - rather than than just playing in every
browser like those old fashioned google videos, youtube, etc you have
to go and download microsofts player - wow - this is the future?

A.

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