On a related issue, and really for long term consideration, I briefly watched 4 Corners in Monday and was about Gene Patents and the issues about. I suggest that there are many parallels between Gene Patents and Software Patents in terms of public good, freedom of information and patenting laws etc. Might be a good idea in the future to consider linking up with the people involved in fighting gene patents, and that includes Public Health administrators (Drs etc) as well as Academics around Australia. As I said, for longer term consideration, to keep at back of our minds! Cheers Daniel.
Hi Folks, The next Melbourne Free Software Interest Group meeting is scheduled for next Thu 16 September. I suggest we skip the meeting and instead just attend Richard Stallman's speech the night before.
Stallman: Free Software in Ethics and in Practise Wed 15 September, 5:30pm, Melbourne University Copeland Theatre RSVP required: http://nicta.com.au/nicta_events/events/event_repository/upcoming_events/big...
If you can't make it, there's also a second Stallman speech:
Stallman: Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks Thu 16 September, 12:30pm, RMIT Storey Hall. Details: http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~gingrich/flyer-1.pdf
And then of course, there's Software Freedom Day on Sat 18, 11am-4pm, State Library of Victoria. I'm excited to be presenting a speech on "Why is free software important?" in the session starting at 11am.
Lots of fun to be had. :)
Ben
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