Write Free Software; Get threatened by a “Patent Holder”?

Friday, April 21, 2006

http://digital-lifestyles.info/display_page.asp?section=business&id=3196

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Write Free Software, Pay $203,000 to Patent Holder 
Jackson Lenford
20 Apr 2006

Ben Jacobsen, a model railroad hobbyist, wrote a bunch of software to let you connect your computer to your model railroad and control trains with it. He chose to not only give the software away for free, but to make the source code available as well, so that the model railroading/hacker community could improve it and customize it to their liking.

And then KAM Industries, maker of commercial software that serves a similar role, tried asserting their 'patent rights' over doing just that.

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This is nuts! There must be something "we" can do about it.

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Did everyone get a lesson about backups over the week end?

Monday, April 17, 2006

WordPress decided to take a little unscheduled vacation. Hopefully your vacaion plans were not stored here. :-0

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interesting that my other blog doesn’t display itself

Thursday, April 13, 2006

I’ll have to check tomorrow. But, when I couldn’t sleep, I published to news items on my other blog. No matter how many times I republished and reindexed, it doesn’t show up. I can see the entry in the edit list. I can see the entry by url. I just can’t see it republished? The items reflowed into my email box. Hmmm.

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Ed Foster “IBM’s Brand Takes on a Different Nuance” — that me! ;-)

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

http://weblog.infoworld.com/foster/2006/04/11_a386.html#a386

IBM's Brand Takes on a Different Nuance

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When you buy a product because you trust the brand, it can be a shock to discover a completely different company is actually doing technical support. For example, many IBM ThinkPad customers were unhappy when IBM sold that brand to Lenovo. And now a reader finds that support for another product with Big Blue's name on it – the IBM ViaVoice speech recognition software– is actually done by ScanSoft. Or, as ScanSoft now calls itself, Nuance Communications.

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Hey that's my story. I'm famous! I shared it with Ed because he has a knack for highlighting the problems. Not that in this case anything got done. The doc still can't use his voice. BUT, at least the story is out there for others to profit from.

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My Wiki Opedia problem: Can’t refer to a local file

Sunday, April 9, 2006

I didcovered that you can NOT have a space in an external url. Google desktop does not include files without a file extension. Goodgle desktop only includes certain extensions. Yahoo desktop doesn't always work as expected (i.e., the dash in a search must have a meta meaning). espite changing the mediawiki advices string and restarting everything, I still can't reference a local file. So I'll have to change my strategy. Give each alum an number and key it thsat way. Hmmm, have to think about that. … …

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ARGHH! Somehow I managed to lose my choices on my other blog

Saturday, April 8, 2006

I must a done something wrong. Not sure what it was. BUT, like a dummy I didn’t have a copy anywhere. Yahoo search, doesn’t work as good as Google desktop for finding webpages. Although Yahoo’s does find things that Google’s couldn’t. Guess you need both. Luckily, I was able to find an old entry cached on Google to recover it. Neat! A new form of backup. Do something stupid. Blunder away. And if Google’s spyder took it, you might be able to find it. Any way it’s back to the way it was.

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WIKI: mywikopedia was accessed over the net

Tuesday, April 4, 2006

My luddite reports that he was able to see my wiki. Hmm, this will change my entire set of thinking. Can't write anythign bad about him in it now. ;-)

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RECOVERY: Reinstall the Nikon P2 wireless (who disks I’ve misplaced)

Sunday, April 2, 2006

Arghhh!

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Getting to the Internet troubles today

Sunday, April 2, 2006

Main connect down, vwbb not working, sigh

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My Wiki Opedia problem: Icon gone from tray

Sunday, April 2, 2006

Nope. Doesn't / Didn't work. Reboot either.

So being the inveterate finger poker! I went it to task manager and nuke everything in sight to do with wamp5, apache, or sql.

Rebooted and it's back.

Don't know why, but it was always working, just zero icon in the tray.

Hmmmm….????
—–Original Message—–
From: CyberSpatium [mailto:cyberspatium@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: WAMP5 ICON gone from tray [2:5423:5446]

This message was sent from: WAMP5 English.
<http://www.wampserver.com/phorum/read.php?f=2&i=5446&t=5423>
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click on:

Start Button -> All Programs -> WampServer -> Start Wampserver

This will now show the icon in the tray.

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