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Re: [Australia-public-discuss] Lobbying greens support.
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anthony |
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Re: [Australia-public-discuss] Lobbying greens support. |
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Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:35:50 +1000 |
PS. If you see Scott then thank him for his stance on internet censorship.
At 02:32 PM 12/02/2010, address@hidden wrote:
>I recently made a submission to the ACIP review
>
>http://www.acip.gov.au/reviewpatentable/Berglas,%20Anthony.pdf
>
>Feel free to use the material.
>
>Anthony
>
>At 01:22 PM 12/02/2010, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
>
>>Hi guys, new to this list, cant find archives so I apologise if I'm
>>reitterating over any previous ground.
>>
>>I'm old friends with Scott Ludlum of the Greens, whos been doing , in my
>>slightly biased opinion, a somewhat heroic job leading the charge against the
>>net filter in the senate estimates committee. He's reasonably competent on
>>tech issues for a non techy type, and might well be interested in taking up
>>the charge against the software patents proposals.
>>
>>What would be really good to see is some sort of dossier on the issue,
>>particularly on how it affects small australian business and innovation, but
>>also how it affects the free & open source community and perhaps for that
>>greens touch, green computing.
>>
>>I'm not really up to date enough on this to fully prepare it myself, so is
>>there anyone who would be interested in putting their hands up for this.
>>
>>Things to keep in mind about the greens:
>>1) The greens are not really socialists, but they certainly are not
>>freemarket libertarians. Free market arguments will not necessarily win the
>>argument with them, but arguments about *small* business, and workers in
>>bigger businesses, will.
>>2) The greens are naturally attracted to the open and free source software
>>movements. Free software embodies a lot of the arguments about community/DIY
>>organising that the greens feel should be central to their vision of a
>>'better' future.
>>3) The greens are *very* attracted to arguments about sustainability and
>>diversity. A possible example of this sort of argument might be around
>>compression algorithms. Compression saves energy by minimizing entropy and
>>less abstractly communication infrastructure energy use and expenditure.
>>Algorithms such as g729 are excluded from free software and small business
>>written software because of the outrageous costs to licence. The end result
>>is most free software voip uses either G711, a bandwidth hungry broadband
>>codec, or iLBC a processor hungry codec. Neither of which really qualify as
>>suitable 'green' algorithms.
>>4) Exposure to predatory american patent trolls. This can be a small business
>>killer, especially in low-return and garage industries like iPhone
>>development where a single lawsuit could effectively kill the operation
>>before it even hit court.
>>
>>It might also be worth noting the european situation, and moves to rethink
>>the patent laws in the US.
>>
>>If anyone wants to help put this together, I can get it to scott and maybe
>>discuss it with him over beers.
>>
>> From there he might be able to talk to other greens senators to get it made
>> into a platform for the party.
>>
>>These are largely different arguments to win the libs over. For them the
>>important factor will be protest from software design houses (I intend to
>>talk to my local guy at some point about how the g729 codec affects my
>>business) , and although I'm by default a labor voter, I'm far too angry with
>>conroys utter technological illiteracy, and arrogance, to be unable to think
>>up a rational approach to him.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Shayne.
>>
>>===================================
>>Shayne O'Neill Development
>>Mobile, Web and Business process integration.
>>address@hidden
>>
>>
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>Dr Anthony Berglas, address@hidden Mobile: +61 4 4838 8874
>Just because it is possible to push twigs along the ground with ones nose
>does not necessarily mean that is the best way to collect firewood.
Dr Anthony Berglas, address@hidden Mobile: +61 4 4838 8874
Just because it is possible to push twigs along the ground with ones nose
does not necessarily mean that is the best way to collect firewood.