/openhealth/ )?
Why are you here?
I tried to unsubscribe from openhealth-list@minoru-development.com but
the administrative interface to the list has been broken for several
years now - or it was last time I tried it. Is it fixed now?
Tim C
Tim Churches a écrit :
Brian Bray wrote:
To quote
, with a set of
define administrative commands. That's definitely an interface. Anyway,
it wasn't working, but I'll try again now. If it works, so long and
thanks for all the fish!
Tim C
Tim Churches a écrit :
I tried to unsubscribe from openhealth-list@minoru-development.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do any of you know anything about Oacis (Open Architecture Clinical
Information System) by DINMAR, a Sun Microsystems technology partner?
Do you mean OACIS in South Australia? See
http://www.health.sa.gov.au/oacisprogramme/DesktopDefault.aspx
If so, I been to a few
Tim Churches wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do any of you know anything about Oacis (Open Architecture Clinical
Information System) by DINMAR, a Sun Microsystems technology partner?
Do you mean OACIS in South Australia? See
http://www.health.sa.gov.au/oacisprogramme/DesktopDefault.aspx
Bruce Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Ignacio for those edits and additions.
Anyone,
Any thoughts on a larger published work either in peer-reviewed or
web-published?
How about http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/321/7267/976
PubMed is your friend - a search of Open source
Adrian Midgley wrote:
Comments against this study seem to be based on scientific research
models.
Is it not engineering, rather than science?
Social engineering? Or wink, sociology (which is neither science nor
engineering)?
Tim C
J. Antas wrote:
The article, named Use of and attitudes to a hospital information
system by medical secretaries, nurses and physicians deprived of the
paper-based medical record: a case report,
and has just been made freely available at:
Franklin Valier wrote:
In science this type of study only has value as to its scientifically
agreed upon use. Its ability to be relied upon to make reliable
conclusions from the methodology has to be taken into perspective when
reading the study. It has value, but in science you don't take
Franklin Valier wrote:
Perhaps you are right. The limitations you point out are indeed very
significant. However when an individual reads a case study and comes to
the conclusion that this is a major contribution to the development of
knowledge about the subject in question, it needs to be
Franklin Valier wrote:
One has to be very cautious when generalizing from the conclusions of
a case study.
Sure, that's what I said - one has to put one's brain in gear...
If the test instrument suffers from a shortage of reliability then the
generalizations will suffer from a shortage of
Daniel L. Johnson wrote:
My own experience, rather limited I must say, is that getting *to* the
data-recording step with IT can be rather cumbersome, even if the actual
typing is easy. A smart system will pop up the entry fields when
needed, but making it smart may be quite an undertaking
Martin van den Bemt wrote:
This statement :
project. We are not in any way opposed to the commercial use of Free and
Open Source Software and there is no legal risk of using GPL licensed
software in commercial products.
Is incorrect btw, when you are using GPL'd java packages.. The risk
here is
Sherman, Paul (CEOSH) wrote:
The only problem with the Unsafe.. analogy...
It was fundamentally inaccurate; the Corvair was
actually pretty safe.
When I was an undergraduate I drove a Fiat 850 Sports Coupe - great
little car - which had the same mechanical layout as the Corvair (engine
Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:
--- Tim Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:
Tim,
I am aware of this sad development, though I did not
read the article you have given. It is a bit tricky
that a communist paper is the one that has put this
forward, after all, a very rich
Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:
--- Tim Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:
Please try out blinkx on your windows machine
before
you delete it. www.blinkx.com
A super new way to search - no linux version yet
:-(
Yes, some nice ideas there, but it is not open
source
Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:
Please try out blinkx on your windows machine before
you delete it. www.blinkx.com
A super new way to search - no linux version yet :-(
Yes, some nice ideas there, but it is not open source, and without the
source code, no-one can verify that the software does not
Canberra, 7 April 2005
The ANU Data Mining Group is pleased to announce the release of
Febrl 0.3, a prototype open source record linkage, deduplication
and geocoding system intended to make probabilistic record linkage
easier, faster and more accurate for biomedical and other
researchers.
The
Adrian Midgley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
UK, 1985
Report of the Micros for GPs scheme.
This brings back fond memories of the A Very peculiar Practice BBC TV series,
in
which serially-failed entrepreneur Dr Bob Buzzard desperately entered drugs
trial data
into his rinky-dinky little
Ignacio Valdes wrote:
We used to have fun in college posting our flush letters for job
applications our senior year so I'm regressing. Perhaps it was my few
journal publications in the field, no experience running any government
agency and little experience with government grants. At least
...).
Tim C
-Original Message-
From: Tim Churches [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 16 March 2005 06:49 PM
To: openhealth-list@minoru-development.com
Subject: Re: M$oft Word to XML or HTML conversion
Daniel L. Johnson wrote:
Dear All,
Anybody here know of a tool to convert MicroSoft Word
Daniel L. Johnson wrote:
Dear All,
Anybody here know of a tool to convert MicroSoft Word files to XML or
HTML? We have a huge archive of Word files...
What sort of XML? Ms-Word saves its documents as XML - but the DTD used
is proprietary.
As Ignacio said, MS Word can save as HTML, but the
David Derauf wrote:
Do you have PING? http://www.chip.org/research/ping.htm
PING is a really good idea, but it is subject to provisional patent
protection in the US and is the subject of a full patent application by
its authors (see
Calle Hedberg wrote:
Hi,
Cross-posting FYI.
For us, PostgreSQL is now a REAL alternative (Africa is 98% Windows, so a
Linux-only DBMS was not very relevant)
98% of desktop ssytems just about anywhere are still Windows, aren't
they? It will take 5 years or more before that figure drops below 80%,
Adrian Midgley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ownership
Is theft.[2]
[2] Ah, but from whom?
(and it is a quote, not an assertion)
Proudhon (As a former anarcho-syndicalist, I knew that even without having to
Google
for it, but here's a link tot he primary source anyway:
See http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2u=/zd/20050105/tc_zd/142004
Two radiologists recently developed open-source software, called
OsiriX, to display and manipulate complex medical images on the popular
portable devices called iPods.
Check the screenshots on their homepage at
David Forslund wrote:
I know a number of folks who would be interested, but the inability to
run the software on Win platforms removes them
from consideration at this time.
All of the tools and infrastructure used are cross-platform, with the
exception of PostgreSQL - but that will soon be also
Tim Cook wrote:
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 23:02, David Forslund wrote:
I know a number of folks who would be interested, but the inability to
run the software on Win platforms removes them
from consideration at this time.
Dave
Maybe this will be enough of a trigger to get them to try out some linux
From: Tim Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: openhealth-list@minoru-development.com
Date: Fri, Dec-24-2004 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: Open source tools for population health epidemiology and public
health
David Forslund wrote:
I know a number of folks who would be interested, but the inability
to
run
enquiries go unanswered. CDC is so big that I
don't think people inside teh organisation know what everyone else is
working on, either, particularly in teh last few years with all the
funds flowing in for public health informatics.
Tim C
Original Message
From: Tim Churches
I am pleased to announce that developmental versions of some tools for
population
health epidemiology and public health are now available under a free, open
source
software license - see http://www.netepi.org (please note that the release
notes for
the NetEpi Analysis tool can be found in
-9) are
country specific eg we use ICD-10-AM (where AM=Australian modification)
for clinical coding, but ICD-10 (as maintained by WHO) for deaths.
Nevertheless, a single international XML standard for representing ICD
codes would be great.
Tim C
Original Message
From: Tim
Alexander Caldwell wrote:
The Multum lexicon database which is available free at
http://www.multum.com has a table in it representing
the ICD9-CM I believe it is updated each month. It is
in an MS-Access format.
Yes, thanks, I had forgotten about Multum Lexicon. It is distributed
under a liberal
David Forslund wrote:
I found this piece of opensource software:
http://memberwebs.com/nielsen/software/rtfx/
which is at least 10 times faster than any commercial products I've tried at
turning
an RTF file into an XML file which can then be parsed with various XML tools.
I know python can
Tim Churches wrote:
Does anyone know where a set of US ICD-9-CM codes and descriptions as
plain text i.e. in a format which can be imported into databse - can be
obatined at no cost? The data do not have to be re-distributable, just
available on teh Internet for free. I have been able to find
novel, or at least sufficinetly incomprehensible that
the patent examiners can't be sure if it is novel, or non-obvious, or not.
Tim C
Tim Churches wrote:
Does anyone know where a set of US ICD-9-CM codes and descriptions as
plain text i.e. in a format which can be imported into databse - can
Elpidio Latorilla wrote:
Hi,
To win a game (and be officially declared as winner), one must play it
according to its rules.
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 17:18, Tim Churches wrote:
The cost of lodging opposition to a patent before it issues here in
Asutralia is AUD$550.
I am willing
Tim Churches wrote:
This patent application is a beauty, by Microsoft this time:
Um, I just realised that the construction ...is a beauty may be an
Australian colloquialism. It is not meant to convey that the thing being
referred to is beautiful, but rather that it is surprising, jaw-dropping
Does anyone know where a set of US ICD-9-CM codes and descriptions as
plain text i.e. in a format which can be imported into databse - can be
obatined at no cost? The data do not have to be re-distributable, just
available on teh Internet for free. I have been able to find a free set
of US
Tim Cook wrote:
On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 18:29, Tim Churches wrote:
At a glance, there would not appear to be much in the way of novelty in
the claims, and several groups here in Australia plan to lodge
objections to the application. Others may wish to object to the
applications in their own
Andrew Ho wrote:
Tim,
I published this invention back in 1998 titled Patient-Controlled
Electronic Medical Records. Please see:
http://www.txoutcome.org/scripts/zope/readings/patient-controlled
and referenced here: http://www.txoutcome.org/scripts/zope/readings/oio
This work has been online and
Andrew Ho wrote:
This means writing documentation to fully disclose innovative
system features
Agree.
and filing some patents from time to time may become
increasingly important for free software projects.
Disagree. I, like many people, believe that Software, algorithmic and
business method
Andrew Ho wrote:
But do these prior systems provide the follwing set of functions?
comprising the steps of : the consumer causing personal health data to be
stored in a secure repository, said repository requiring authentication of
the consumer's identity before the consumer is provided access
David Forslund wrote:
Thus the patent you describe would make the RAD OMG specification a violation of your patent,
since it provides a mechanism to specifically what you say plus a lot more?
If the patent application in question is approved in the US and the
patent issues (yes, they have filed
Andrew Ho wrote:
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Tim Churches wrote:
Andrew Ho wrote:
Tim,
I published this invention back in 1998 titled Patient-Controlled
Electronic Medical Records. Please see:
http://www.txoutcome.org/scripts/zope/readings/patient-controlled
and referenced here: http://www.txoutcome.org
David Forslund wrote:
I agree, and the OMG has some boiler plate that typically removes them from any
patent liability leaving it up
to the implementor of the technology. What I have a problem is properly identifying
prior art. The background
papers clearly cover these issues long before these
Gerard Freriks wrote:
Hi,
Lets be sensible.
A template is nothing but a screen thta can be filled.
As far as I know that has been described many times before 2001.
Isn't it?
Yes, but pointers to papers published prior to 2001 which specifically
describe this would be appreciated. Formal and
Andrew Ho wrote:
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, David Forslund wrote:
Thus the patent you describe would make the RAD OMG specification a
violation of your patent, since it provides a mechanism to specifically
what you say plus a lot more?
Dave,
No, if RAD OMG spec is a superset of any subsequent
Andrew Ho wrote:
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:08:57 +1100, Tim Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Yes, but if the patent is issued regardless (as very often seems to
happen), then its invalidity needs to be proven in the courts - very
expensive.
Tim,
Going to court and the associated expense may
from 1996 is full of prior
art for this patent application.
Thanks,
Tim C
-- private --
Gerard Freriks, arts
Huigsloterdijk 378
2158 LR Buitenkaag
The Netherlands
+31 252 544896
+31 654 792800
On 23 Nov 2004, at 03:29, Tim Churches wrote:
There is some concern here in Australia over a patent
There is some concern here in Australia over a patent application lodged
by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia over some rather generic features of
EHRs. These concerns are reported here:
http://australianit.news.com.au/common/print/0,7208,11467621%5E15319%5E%5Enb%20v%5E15306,00.html
or here:
See http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit2004.html
I agree with his point that the big IT consultancy/integrator firms operate
on a project management headcount basis, but he ignores the potential of
open source development methods (as opposed to the use of open source
software
On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 00:40, Wayne Wilson wrote:
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David Forslund wrote:
| The application doesn't need much in the way of J2EE support. It only
needs JSP support.
|
Thanks David and Don for the information.
Let me give some more perspective
On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 10:07, Aho wrote:
:))
Presumably this message is the result of someone misusing Andrew's email
address to send out malware. In this instance, they have even mimicked
Andrew's characteristic use of smileys.
This happens to me all the time - people complain that I sent
infrastructures are a sine qua non).
Tim C
Adrian Midgley wrote:
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 21:48, Tim Churches wrote:
Richard Grainger, the head of the NHS IA
Certainly he is in charge, but of the NPfIT which is
esentially taking
over
from the NHSIA.
The IA was established
Adrian Midgley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 28 October 2004 13:08, Tim Churches wrote:
Here in the state of New South Wales (Australia), a Dept of
Commerce
tender for all-of-govt contracts for Linux software and support
services (especially the latter) closes today. When
From: Tim Churches [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 22 October 2004 1:09 AM
To: 'Horst Herb'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Virtual Privacy Machine
From: GPCG Talk List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Horst Herb
Sent: Friday, 22 October 2004 9
From: GPCG Talk List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Horst Herb
Sent: Friday, 22 October 2004 9:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [GPCG_TALK] Virtual Privacy Machine
The seems to resolve many of our security problems arising
from inadequate choices of software and operating
From: Heitzso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 19 October 2004 8:08 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: web based applications and PRINTING
Web printing 'was' notorious difficult for quite awhile, from the
developer's point of view as well as the user's. The primary reason
Horst Herb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 23:34, Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:
However it is great for short notes on mobile devices.
The trouble is that they have tiny screens and I am
over 40 :(
So am I (over 40 :( )
One of the main reason for choosing a Zaurus as PDA
Tim Churches [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Horst Herb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 23:34, Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:
However it is great for short notes on mobile devices.
The trouble is that they have tiny screens and I am
over 40 :(
So am I (over 40 :( )
One
From: David Guest [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, 17 October 2004 1:02 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: freenx
| I am having trouble getting Tim's NX technology to tunnel,
however,
| due to some ssh reverse lookup security issues.
I RTFMed and it works without problem.
On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 00:12, Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:
Andrew,
I want you to look at http://www.dasher.com
I downloaded and tried the latest version of dasher under GTK on linux -
it is even better now.
I would dearly love to have dasher on my mobile phone (cell phone) - it
would be vastly
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 19:28, Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:
I am not sure about these arguments. Migration is one
issue as it is a possible permanent loss of a skilled
person from one country to another.
There is a loss of British, Australian, Austrian and
others who also move to the USA for
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 05:41, Andrew Ho wrote:
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
When the UK, Canada or Australia recruits such a person to work in the
UK, Canada or Australia, do they reimburse the South African government
for the cost
Double standard you use.
No.
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 06:12, Andrew Ho wrote:
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
...
In the meantime, I wonder what are the critical differences that
impede your efficiency?
A browser cannot access card readers unless quite
sophisticated add-on code is installed locally.
Daniel L. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 04:31, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
...snip...
What I want to say is that I don't think a browser is the best
choice for a prescribing client.
I believe that the browser is useful for development because it
minimises the time spent
Adrian Midgley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm more and more impressed with thin clients - whether VNC or rdesktop
or
some variant of X over ssh.
FreeNX (see http://www.kalyxo.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/FreeNX ) and/or the NX
nomachine protocol on which it is based (see http://www.nomachine.com )
Andrew Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 13 Oct 2004, Tim Churches wrote:
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 06:12, Andrew Ho wrote:
...
Karsten,
What about USB-accessible cards? Most operating systems have
built-in
support to read from these.
Yes, but Karsten's excellent point
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 16:59, Andrew Ho wrote:
On Sun, 11 Oct 2004, Tim Churches wrote:
...
Different effects in different browsers when you press a given access
key for a given Web page could lead to grief.
Tim,
1) This is no more grief than having different buttons on different
web
On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 03:43, Andrew Ho wrote:
On Mon, 12 Oct 2004, Tim Churches wrote:
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 16:59, Andrew Ho wrote:
...
Tim,
1) This is no more grief than having different buttons on different
web pages.
It is when **the same application** behaves differently
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 04:21, Andrew Ho wrote:
Would new browser features such as access keys
(http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html) change your
opinion?
Reading through that page, I became less and less enthusiastic as the
differences in implementation and behaviour of access
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 07:34, J. Antas wrote:
Prof. Cardoso Guimares(*), author of the book Fundamentos de Bancos de
Dados (Database Fundaments) just published the results of a DBMS
benchmark including: Postgres, Firebird/Interbase, Oracle e Mysql.
Surprisingly (or not) PostgreSQL was the
Andrew McNamara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, would need to investigate how they work with current crop of
browsers - could be a source of grief if very inconsistent behaviour
between browsers.
The business about IE using many of the hotkeys itself, but that
accesskeys redirect these to the
On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 02:16, will ross wrote:
We're agreed on the ultimate goal of capturing the data as standardised
fields rather than rasters of handwriting. However, I know of one local
clinic where the latter is a milestone en route to the former.
Combining transcription saved as text
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 20:11, Calle Hedberg wrote:
Finally, just to put the focus back where it started: One key difference
between countries with far too few doctors - but often easier access to e.g.
admin staff (South Africa has 40% unemployment rate, many of them
matriculants that could
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 08:01, Calle Hedberg wrote:
Otherwise, I've just read the last annual HIV prevalence survey (survey in
November 2003) for pregnant women: On average 27.5% for South Africa, with
provincial rates ranging from about 13% to 37%.
Not the first time I've seen such figures,
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 09:47, Andrew Ho wrote:
On Mon, 5 Oct 2004, Tim Churches wrote:
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 08:01, Calle Hedberg wrote:
...
Add to that the fact that UK, Canada, Australia and other countries
systematically poach doctors and nurses from SA (we have over 30,000
vacant
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 14:21, Andrew Ho wrote:
Needs typically exheed the ability to fill the need; this is called
scarcity in economics, please read:
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/economics/scarcityandchoices1.htm
With greater scarcity, each unit of goods/service will command
MedInfo 2004 has come and gone, almost unnoticed on this list. Does anyone have
any reports of FOSS events, activities or talks at MedInfo 2004? We have ordered
the complete set of audio files (in MP3 format on a CD-ROM - great idea) but it will
be weeks before it arrives (and months before I
On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 03:33, Andrew Ho wrote:
Saw this on Slashdot today:
http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/08/13/1317236.shtml?tid=103tid=117tid=185tid=98
The link to the California Performance Review recommendation:
http://www.report.cpr.ca.gov/cprrpt/issrec/stops/it/so10.htm
The
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 21:34, Calle Hedberg wrote:
I would not use the term simple about some of the
querying,
I said that MySQl was noted for its speed with fairly simple queries,
not that your system only used simple queries.
(and platform independence - one
reason for not really
On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 01:37, Adrian Midgley wrote:
On Tuesday 13 July 2004 12:34, Calle Hedberg wrote:
... platform independence - one
reason for not really considering PostgreSQL up to now because it's not
stable/efficient on windows)
A local publisher has a large database (their
On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 01:35, Calle Hedberg wrote:
Wayne,
I have seen far too many systems over-specified and operating practices
overly elaborate not based on any functional evidence, but based purely
on theoretical considerations allowing no compromises to be made.
Theoretical
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 00:00, Adrian Midgley wrote:
On Monday 12 July 2004 09:01, Tim Churches wrote:
This may be of interest to Openhealth list subscribers.
... from the release announcement ...
The CVS is at present only 'download enabled' so you can only read and
download
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 02:06, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
Calle Hedberg wrote:
The Health (Management) Information Systems Programme I'm working with now
covers wholly or partially countries/states with around 200 mill people. We
are moving towards DBMS independence for our solutions, but MySQL
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 18:52, Aidan M McGuire wrote:
It's a good job the Linux community didn't adopt that strategy ;-)
And just about every other successful open source project...
Seriously, the code-to-documentation and code-to-test ratios tell you a
lot about a project.
On Mon, 2004-06-14
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 01:50, Andrew Ho wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jun 2004, Tim Churches wrote:
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 18:52, Aidan M McGuire wrote:
It's a good job the Linux community didn't adopt that strategy ;-)
And just about every other successful open source project...
Seriously
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 06:55, Tim Cook wrote:
In a report about continuity of care records and electronic medical
summary records I found a statement that intrigued me.
In Denmark over 90% of GPs offices (and 75% in New Zealand) use their
computer systems to electronically send and receive
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 03:40, Flewelling, Tim (DHW/SME) wrote:
Hi,
How about a non-health care specific open source project? Ad and link below.
the universal information client
Haystack is a tool designed to let every individual manage all of their
information in the way that makes the
On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 23:14, will ross wrote:
you ridicule my book, ignore my suggestions, and restate your original
points more strongly. gee, tim, you do a great impression of an ugly
american who, having discovered that his english isn't understood,
raises his voice and adds a bad
will ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
does this mean the patentistas will give up without a fight? no. do i
care? yes, outrageous abuses abound. but rather than gnash my teeth i
quietly tend my code garden because at a fundamental level i am
voting
by my actions for the freedom to think for
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 22:36, Wayne Wilson wrote:
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Tim Churches wrote:
| See http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/06/01/HNnaantispam_1.html
|
|
| Some of the claims mentioned for this particular patent are doubly
| absurd, particularly the use
On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 03:01, will ross wrote:
On 3 Jun 2004, at 12:36 AM, Tim Churches wrote:
Sure there is little hope for patent reform in the US and thus US
citizens might as
well roll over and read a good book...
cute, but irrelevant. if you want to follow the patent reform debate
On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 07:30, Tomlinson, Steven B wrote:
I like the U.S. Patent, Trademark, and Copyright system. It is part of the
foundation of my country and was written into our Constitution from the
beginning. Some organizations may find ways to unfairly exploit the system,
however, in the
See http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/06/01/HNnaantispam_1.html for a
report on the absurdity of the US patent system - a system which the US
is trying to ram down the throat of the rest of the world (eg the
European patent law reforms, and the mooted changes to Australian
patent law under the
See http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/02/1086058889577.html
In the 19th and 20th Centuries the struggle was over the ownership of capital
means of production. In the 21st Century it is increasingly clear that the struggle
will be over the right to use ideas. George Monbiot has written some
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 12:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Research on filesystems, mostly Unix and Linux, indicates a possibility
that a secure
filesystem can be created that can resist attempts to access it by
applications and
'users' that are not properly authenticated. Furthermore, there is
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 19:23, J. Antas wrote:
Speex 1.1.5 Unstable
by Jean-Marc Valin (http://freshmeat.net/~jmvalin/)
Wednesday, April 21st 2004 20:40
About:
Speex is a patent-free compression format designed especially for speech.
It is specialized for voice communications at low
On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 23:15, Adrian Midgley wrote:
I think the thing I would most like to change about HL7 is the policy on
release of its documentation, where a modest sum is required of anyone who
wants a copy of it, and therefore instead of a standard which the owners
would like everyone
David Forslund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do folks down under know about this work? I would appreciate
comments.
There was a note about this on this list over a year ago, but I'm
interested in people's assessment.
Any particular aspects, Dave? It is a fairly large, multi-headed
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