Q: What do these companies have in common? The Green Bay Packers, Boca Raton Resort & Club, Burlington Coat Factory, Caterpillar, Continental Airlines, Ford Motor, J Crew, Kraft Foods, OfficeMax, Sears, Tire Kingdom, Walgreen, Wal-mart.
A: All of them have been sued for infringing a software patent. The first Monday of the month, October 4th, is the regular date for the CentraLUG meeting. We'll be airing the documentary, "Patent Absurdity, " funded by FSF [1], copyright by Luca Lucarini and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license[2], and available from at http://patentabsurdity.com/ Hear from: Mark Webbink, Jesse Vincent, Richard M. Stallman, Karen Sander, Dan Ravischer, CiarĂ¡n O'Riordan, Joe Mullin, Eben Moglen, Timothy B. Lee, Ben Klemens, Mishi Choudhary, Peter Brown, Dan Bricklin, and James Bessen. In addition, we'll have plenty of time for Q&A, discussion of upcoming meetings, mutual support, etc. We'll be meeting at the NHTI Library, Institute Drive in Concord. The Library is the large building close to the main parking lot, with a clock tower. The main entrance is on the quad side, opposite the parking lot, and we'll be in Room 146 - head straight to the back, then take a left. Hope to see you there! [1] http://patentabsurdity.com/about.html [2] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/