Re: [fsfc-discuss] A first time hello

[Russell McOrmond]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Blaise Alleyne wrote:

> campaigns could be a start. For example, they've just launched the End 
> Software Patents campaign. I hear a ton about US Patent Law, and even the 
> issue of software patents in the European Union, but I know next to nothing 
> about the Canadian law in this respect.

  I will be giving a talk at IT360.ca on Canadian software patents, partly 
to try to get the topic more on the radar.  It has been hard to get people 
excited on the issue as people assume our laws are the same as the US 
(sometimes even the bureaucrats).

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