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08-26-2010

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How You Can Help Patent Attorneys Help Free Software

I would like everyone to watch tridge's talk [.ogv] [mp3] on patents and how engineers can interact efficiently with patent lawyers, to get your knowledge across to them. More formats are linked from End Software Patents, if you prefer audio only.
Focus, please, also on what he's learned about patents, how to invalidate them in various ways, especially the part about proving non-infringement and why that is easier than proving prior art, and then the part about finding a workaround that then publicizing it. He shows how to read a patent filing document. You guys have been effective already in the past in finding prior art, but he is raising the bar with more techniques.
I see some of you are already posting what you believe to be prior art on the Oracle America patents being used against Google, and we might as well do it as well as we can once we are sure Oracle is going to go forward full steam ahead, but there are other arrows to add to our quiver. I'm waiting to see if there is a settlement of some kind, but when I am sure it's going forward, I'll tell you. Patent infringement cases go on for years, usually, so there's time to hope for progress. Larry Ellison is giving a talk at JavaOne September 20 in San Francisco on "Oracle's vision and strategy" for Java. As James Gosling points out, there is still a way to fulfill the 2007 Java pledge by setting up an independent Java foundation, and there are other steps Oracle can still take. In spite of all that is happening, one thing I am clear on. Oracle is not SCO. Oracle is Oracle. Sui generis.
But as Eben Moglen pointed out recently at LinuxCon, the patent crisis in general isn't going away. So it's best that we figure out the very best ways to deal with it. I'm told his talk will be available as video soon, and when it's up, it will be here on the Linux Foundation website.

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RICOCHET(6)							   Games Manual 						       RICOCHET(6)

NAME

       ricochet - client application for multi-player ricochet robots game

SYNOPSIS

       ricochet --host <hostname> --port <port> --name <username> --game <gamename> --watch

DESCRIPTION

       Ricochet  is a client for the Ricochet Robots server (rrserve). It provides a view of the board and permits the user to fully interact with
       the server, both managing the set of games running in the server and playing individual games.

USAGE

       Options are as follows:

       --help,--usage
	      Print a help/usage message and exit.

       -h,--host hostname
	      Select the host running the Ricochet Robots server. By default, ricochet connects to localhost

       -p,--port port
	      Select the TCP port to connect to. By default, ricochet connects to port 5252.

       -n,--name username
	      Specify the player name to present to the server. This name will be shown to all other players. By default, this is the user's login
	      name.

       -g,--game  gamename
	      Select  a  game  to join or create. By default, ricochet presents a dialog showing the available games and also allowing the user to
	      create a new game.

       -w,--watch
	      This allows the user to watch the selected game rather than participating in it.

AUTHOR

       icochet is the work of Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>

       Ricochet is
       Copyright 2003,2012 Keith Packard. All Rights Reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as  published	by
       the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.

       This  program  is  distributed  in  the	hope  that  it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
       CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free  Software  Foundation,
       Inc.,  59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
       of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without  limi-
       tation  the  rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons
       to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

       The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

								    2012-06-11							       RICOCHET(6)