Re: [issues] Patents (was: RMS boycott of Amazon)

1999-12-19 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999 15:56:50 +1100, "Jenn V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >If he did it as part of his employment, then the employer has the >rights to the work and derivatives. This is automatic with copyrights, but not with patents. There's no "work-for-hire" doctrine as a matter of law for pat

[issues] list of women in open source

1999-12-19 Thread Kirrily 'Skud' Robert
During that discussion about how many women were using Linux/Open Source, I had an idea which may or may not be a good one. I'd appreciate your comments... Basically, the idea is to set up a web page which lists women who work in Open Source in various capacities, such as: Open Source software

Re: [issues] Attitudes in the workplace

1999-12-19 Thread Kirrily 'Skud' Robert
Louise wrote: > >So I was pretty surprised to receive an email the other day, addressed to >three of us in IT (two of the guys, and me), which started > >"Gentlemen, " I went to a SAGE meeting the other day with two male friends (one of them was Netizen staff, one was just a friend). We were

Re: [issues] list of women in open source

1999-12-19 Thread Robert Kiesling
> Basically, the idea is to set up a web page which lists women who work > in Open Source in various capacities, such as: I think it would be a mistake to simply try to publicize women, because many of them would have personal or professional reasons not to have their names and credentials lis

Re: [issues] list of women in open source

1999-12-19 Thread skud
In netizen.lists.linuxchix.issues, you wrote: > >> Basically, the idea is to set up a web page which lists women who work >> in Open Source in various capacities, such as: > >I think it would be a mistake to simply try to publicize women, >because many of them would have personal or professional r

Re: [issues] list of women in open source

1999-12-19 Thread Robert Kiesling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [Note that I personally dislike the idea of mentioning Telsa as "Alan > Cox's missus" or similar... her diary is a resource in its own right, > especially for those who want to hear what it's like for a non-hacker to > try to come to grips with Linux, and I personally

Re: [issues] list of women in open source

1999-12-19 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 10:47:18PM +1100 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In netizen.lists.linuxchix.issues, you wrote: > > > >> Basically, the idea is to set up a web page which lists women who work > >> in Open Source in various capacities, such as: > > > >I think it would be a mistake

Re: [issues] list of women in open source

1999-12-19 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 10:47:18PM +1100 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > leader's name in vain, but I think Deb falls clearly into the latter > category, for instance. Two other examples I can think of are Elizabeth > wossname who is an editor of LWN, and Telsa Gwynne, whose diary is >

[issues] Re: Attitudes in the workplace

1999-12-19 Thread Julie Meloni
> So I was pretty surprised to receive an email the other day, addressed to > three of us in IT (two of the guys, and me), which started > > "Gentlemen, " > ... > I'm not so much offended by it, it was a pretty minor mistake to make. But > I'm just really surprised that he routinely start

Re: [issues] Patents (was: RMS boycott of Amazon)

1999-12-19 Thread franzoni
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, TeknoDragon wrote: > > copyright to patents (as is in the US). Well, patents are not a good > > thing, you can tell from the amazon story (and the unisys/gif one, you > > not a good thing? > > tell me, if you were a struggling college student who is developing an > original

Re: [issues] Patents (was: RMS boycott of Amazon)

1999-12-19 Thread TeknoDragon
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i would be really pissed off, because I should check if there are patents > on each single piece of my software. yes, a patent search... you'd be suprized what hasn't been done ;-> the advice that I've recieved tho is that since patent law favor

Re: [issues] list of women in open source

1999-12-19 Thread Kirrily 'Skud' Robert
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Telsa Gwynne wrote: > >I didn't think that you had originally meant, "trawl newsgroups and >credits lists for female names and just stick them up regardless", no :) That certainly wasn't my intention! >I wasn't sure about the idea at first, but then I thought of t

Re: [issues] list of women in open source

1999-12-19 Thread Kirrily 'Skud' Robert
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Telsa Gwynne wrote: > >On the subject of editors: Marjorie Richardson is the editor of >Linux Journal, too. Cool, noted. >And here's an area where there's a huge amount of women: > >MUSHes. Yup, I agree with the crossover. I think the reason it's not more appare