Keith Lofstrom wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 02:40:15PM -0700, Galen Seitz wrote: >> THIS AMERICAN LIFE: The Patent Show >> Sun, July 24, 10am. Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town >> in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door ... and then leave it >> completely empty for a year? The answer involves a controversial >> billionaire physicist in Seattle, a 40-pound cookbook and a war that >> is waging right now across the software and tech industries. This >> American Life unpacks an amazing story of a battle over progress, >> innovation and the U. S. Constitution. > > Could somebody summarize this for me? I have a hard time hearing, > radio shows especially. I assume this is about Nathan Myrvold, > his company Intellectual Ventures, and the patent-troll-friendly > East Texas district of the US District Court.
You're in luck. There's a transcript of the show. 24 page pdf. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/sites/default/files/TAL441_transcript.pdf I haven't yet listened to the show. -- Galen Seitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
