Thanks Ben.
The video from my recent talk "Ending Software Patents in Australia" is available.
Nice talk! I just got around to watching it. I thought that there was a really great idea from a commenter at the end of your talk whereby free software would be considered by law 'in the public interest' and becomes except from applying to patent lawsuits at all. Not only would this meet our goals of being able to write and use free software without consequence, but it would also encourage businesses to publish free software to protect their efforts. I like it. Mega-corporations that ship proprietary software may even decide to turn against the patent system as their patents become less useful, and only serve to encourage free software publishing particularly in small to medium businesses sectors. What did you think of the idea? Would you still feel any concern if the patent system still applied exclusively to non-free software?
First enable patent-unencumbered WebM video for YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/html5
It's good to see that YouTube doesn't require you to sign in just to select that option any more. I previously had to rely on a Greasemonkey script to take care of this. Regards, Adam