Re: [Australia-public-discuss] Lobbying greens support.

[anthony]

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
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>http://www.acip.gov.au/reviewpatentable/Berglas,%20Anthony.pdf
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>Feel free to use the material.
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>Anthony
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>At 01:22 PM 12/02/2010, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
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>>Hi guys, new to this list, cant find archives so I apologise if I'm 
>>reitterating over any previous ground.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>It might also be worth noting the european situation, and moves to rethink 
>>the patent laws in the US.
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>>If anyone wants to help put this together, I can get it to scott and maybe 
>>discuss it with him over beers. 
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>> 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.
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>>Shayne O'Neill Development
>>Mobile, Web and Business process integration.
>>address@hidden
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>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.