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	<title>Fred Trotter &#187; Patents</title>
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	<description>Hacktivist, coding for social change</description>
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		<title>Prior Art for the BillingNetwork Patent Troll</title>
		<link>http://www.fredtrotter.com/2010/08/13/prior-art-for-the-billingnetwork-patent-troll/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fredtrotter.com/2010/08/13/prior-art-for-the-billingnetwork-patent-troll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am saddened that the supreme court decided not to address the  software patent problem with Bilski. They had an opportunity to abolish or at least reign-in  software patents, which are an inherently bad idea. Instead they undid  what little progress had been made in the Bilski precedent.
I think others have already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health of the Source at OSCON</title>
		<link>http://www.fredtrotter.com/2010/08/11/health-of-the-source-at-oscon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fredtrotter.com/2010/08/11/health-of-the-source-at-oscon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ftrotter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi,
OSCON has just published my health of the source talk from OSCON 2010! My slides got a little mixed up, so my delivery is a little scattered, but I hit all of the points I wanted to, just in the wrong order&#8230;

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		<title>Enabling open core</title>
		<link>http://www.fredtrotter.com/2009/10/03/enabling-open-core/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ftrotter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What license should you consider for your new Health IT platform? As you consider that, you should think carefully about your user audience. You want people in the Open Source community to develop against your code. You want people to add value to your core. To achieve this you have to recognize that our community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft may allow FOSS implementations of HealthVault API</title>
		<link>http://www.fredtrotter.com/2009/05/26/microsoft-may-allow-foss-implementations-of-healthvault-api/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fredtrotter.com/2009/05/26/microsoft-may-allow-foss-implementations-of-healthvault-api/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 09:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ftrotter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sean Nolan has announced that Microsoft has placed the HealthVault API specification, under the Microsoft Community Promise (CP) at the time of the writing, this page has not been updated to list the HealthVault API, but the text is provided in the specification download. This may allow for FOSS implementations of HealthVault.
The Microsoft CP is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Patents&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.fredtrotter.com/2007/12/18/on-patents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often I get phone calls, emails or other correspondence that begins. &#8220;We have this great patent pending idea and we want to use open source&#8221;. Hopefully I will take some time and write more about why software patents are a particular problem with medical software, but for now I am satisfied to link to a [...]]]></description>
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