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Alarm: Softwarepatents on the move again

10:16 AM

The President of the European Patent Office (EPO), Alison Brimelow, has asked the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) to decide on the interpretation of the European Patent Convention (EPC) regarding the exclusion of software from patentability. The EBA is replacing the European Parliament in order to validate software patents EU-wide without the need of a debate.

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Visual Studio 2008 SDK re-introduces BaseCodeGeneratorWithSite for “Custom Tool” implementation

11:52 AM

A nice detail I thought should be mentioned, since nobody else talks about it:

Many people talk about using BaseCodeGeneratorWithSite with older versions of the Studio and point to a vanished MS Sample which implements the class outside of the Visual Studio SDK since it became internal with the 2003 release. Rejoice! The Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 has the BaseCodeGeneratorWithSite back in its full glory.

(If someone has the Visual Studio 2005 SDK installed I’d be interested to hear about the BaseCodeGeneratorWithSite status there.)

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About political correctness …

08:57 AM

Martin Krafft reports in his blog posting about “Linux for visually-impaired (developers)”, a presentation made by a blind Debian Developer at the LCA:

So when I write about Jason’s presentation and how great it was, I want to highlight how it’s a greater achievement for him than it would be for me, because he is blind and I am not. I don’t mean to single him out or put him on the spot. I am simply impressed, very impressed. And being who I am, I’d like to say so.

Thanks, Jason.

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