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Jason YipWhat I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 14 September 2025 <a href="https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-14-september-2025-a79190ceeeee" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-14-september-2025-a79190ceeeee</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TalentManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TalentManagement</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DataStructures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataStructures</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Meritocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meritocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Patents</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TeamFlow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TeamFlow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WebDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebDevelopment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Leadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Leadership</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://fedi.slightly.tech/@joepie91" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@joepie91</a> good question, and I think this is something that jeeds spechalized legal consulting.<ul><li>The closest one I'd know for that in <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Germany</a> would be <a href="https://mastodon.social/@wbs_legal" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@wbs_legal</a> but they mostly do media legislation and eCommerce and not much re: <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/licensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#licensing</a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IP</a> in terms of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Software</a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Patents</a>.</li></ul>That being said the only precedents I know were <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PatentTrolls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PatentTrolls</a> like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Sysvel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sysvel</a> which went after commercial violators and not end-users, as the latter (unlike a producer) can argue they've acted in good faith, but there's (still ongoing) dispute re: a (now defunct) <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Keyseller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Keyseller</a> from Germany.<ul><li>OFC this is <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NotLegalAdvice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NotLegalAdvice</a> so don't act upon this!</li></ul>

NonilexAlso Friday, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Commerce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Commerce</a> Secy Howard Lutnick sent a letter to Alan M. Garber, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Harvard</a>’s president, claiming that the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/university" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#university</a> had not lived up to its obligations surrounding federally funded <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#patents</a>, which are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Acc/to the letter, the agency will begin a comprehensive review of Harvard’s compliance w/federal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a>. The new pressures on Harvard come during a week when the govt had also taken significant steps to bring other schools into line with its agenda.

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> stepped up pressure on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Harvard</a> Friday, adding a new investigation into the university’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#patents</a> & renewing a host of claims that the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/university" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#university</a> is unfit to host <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InternationalStudents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InternationalStudents</a>.[The Trump admin filed a court motion Friday accusing] Harvard of failure to control crime, & claims that Harvard’s leadership has “shown itself to be incapable of properly hosting, monitoring, disciplining, & reporting on its foreign students.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AcademicFreedom</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tyranny</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/trump-harvard-patent-investigation-international-students.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/trump-harvard-patent-investigation-international-students.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</a>

Jan PenfratA prominent MEP -- Tiemo <a href="https://d-64.social/@woelken" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@woelken</a> -- is suing the <a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@EUCommission</a> for "failing to adequately explain why it withdrew two pieces of EU legislation shortly after President Ursula von der Leyen met with U.S. Vice President JD Vance," according to Politico.Wölken says "he has filed a court challenge because the Commission delayed responding to his requests for access to documents" regarding the withdrawal of the EU’s proposed regulations on <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#patents</a> and <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/AILiability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AILiability</a>. <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/AIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIL</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/VdL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VdL</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://mastodon.social/@katyswain" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@katyswain</a> I din't think that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CCSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CCSS</a> is good either, but the demands of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPLv3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GPLv3</a> are not compatible with the (adnitteldy shitty) reality of how <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IP</a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Licensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Licensing</a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Patents</a> work and thus it kneecaps a lot of things.<ul><li>GPLv3 caused <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a> to freeze their <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/bash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bash</a> version and divest into <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LLVM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLVM</a> and adopt <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/zsh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#zsh</a>.</li><li>As <a href="https://mstdn.jp/@landley" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@landley</a> showed, enforcing the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GPL</a>(v2) resulted in exactly 0 code being committed to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BusyBox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BusyBox</a> and it only made said project look toxic and litigatious. </li><li>Also i've yet to see anything happen re: <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/paywalled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#paywalled</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SourceCodeAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SourceCodeAccess</a> for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/grsec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#grsec</a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RedHat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RedHat</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a>. Maybe <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPLv4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GPLv4</a> will ban <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/paxwalling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#paxwalling</a> and force violators to work on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GNU</a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/HURD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HURD</a>?</li></ul>I chose <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/0BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#0BSD</a> for _OS/1337 because as with any "intellectual labour", one cannot force others to collaborate and I'd rather have people join in out of the goodness of their hearts instead of just dumping some random git commit that is useless.<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OS1337" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OS1337</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ytc1" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ytc1</a> <a href="https://mas.to/@DenOfEarth" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@DenOfEarth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@aka_pugs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@aka_pugs</a> I know.And espechally in <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ScientificComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScientificComputing</a> a lot of researchers loved working with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SunMicrosystems</a> and when <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Oracle</a> took over that relationship got sour'd instantly due to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Oracle</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CEO</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LarryEllison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LarryEllison</a>...-> <a href="https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114682503920794745" translate="no" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114682503920794745</a>One of the big successes of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sun</a> was that they basically declared a unilateral "ceasefire" in terms of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IP</a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Patents</a> re: <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a>. Whereas Oracle didn't seem willing to honour that.<ul><li>Without that cooperative atmosphere we saw <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenOffice</a> devs literally forking off into <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@libreoffice</a> and projects like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/illumos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#illumos</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/@openzfs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@openzfs</a> scramble to save what was OpenSource'd and also rescue that.</li></ul>Obviously <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> with it's <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPLv2only" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GPLv2only</a>-Kernel and most of it's Userland could not get 'closed-sourced' like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenSolaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSolaris</a> which instantly got stomped out by Oracle as they wanted to sqeeze <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Solaris</a> for profits and milk their clients in typical Oracle fashion...<ul><li>Which is sad because <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#competition</a> breeds <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#innovation</a> and a lot of stuff like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Zones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Zones</a> in Solaris really were at their time really forcing <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/KVM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KVM</a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/bhyve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bhyve</a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BSDjails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BSDjails</a> to up their game for good.</li></ul>Now granted, I do know someone who for most of their life made their money dealing with the intricacies of setting up <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/postfix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#postfix</a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/sendmail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sendmail</a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/courier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#courier</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MailServers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MailServers</a> on Solaris and if I ask said person about that they give me a kilometer stare, so OFC like a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SysV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SysV</a> - <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Unix</a> systems Solaris and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SunOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SunOS</a> really are one of the reasons <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WindowsNT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WindowsNT</a> won the "<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WorkstationWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkstationWar</a>" and why - if anyone - <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a> won the last "<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UnixWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnixWar</a>"...<ul><li>Still I do am sad that I declined that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/sysadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sysadmin</a> position at a leading research center I'm not at liberty to name and I do know there's OFC still some critical infrastructure running even older Solaris servers...</li></ul><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ytc1/114689337148586939" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ytc1/114689337148586939</a>

Michael Martinez :verified:I wrote a new thing today on Recollect."When You Read Patents, You Should Check Names & Topics"<a href="https://c.im/tags/seo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seo</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/aimode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aimode</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/aioverviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aioverviews</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/searchengineoptimization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#searchengineoptimization</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#google</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#patents</a> <a href="https://notes.recollect.fyi/ggRxBUaM" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://notes.recollect.fyi/ggRxBUaM</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://wetdry.world/@ezra" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ezra</a> personally I think <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a> should be forced.to implement <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AV1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AV1</a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WebM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebM</a> and that <a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@EUCommission</a> could mandate <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenStandards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenStandards</a>. <ul><li>As for quality, were it not for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#patents</a> and espechally <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SoftwarePantents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwarePantents</a>, we'd have way better <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Codecs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Codecs</a>, but this way people engineering a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FLOSS</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Codec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Codec</a> are constantly required to specifically avoid infringement of Patents and other IP by not using anything remotely related to it...</li></ul>Also if <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/H265" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#H265</a> wasn't <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/patented" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#patented</a> and facing <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PatentTrolls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PatentTrolls</a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/rentseekers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rentseekers</a> we'd see way better quality there as well.<ul><li>Cuz <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CCSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CCSS</a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FLOSS</a> can't share code nor expertise at all.</li></ul>And yes, Apple (<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MPEGLA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MPEGLA</a>-Member) is <a href="https://wetdry.world/@ezra/114407901007915827" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">at the root of the problem</a>!

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:<a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/Stratasys" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Stratasys</a> uses 10 patents, two of them orginally from <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/Makerbot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Makerbot</a> (anyone remember?) to sue <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/Bambulab" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Bambulab</a> in two separate US court cases. Patent infringement claimed on using a heated bed, using a purge tower, force detection etc. Seems to me that Stratasys is patent trolling really hard ATM. <a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/3d-printer-maker-bambu-lab-faces-patent-infringement-lawsuits-that-could-threaten-hobbyist-3d-printing-in-general" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/3d-printer-maker-bambu-lab-faces-patent-infringement-lawsuits-that-could-threaten-hobbyist-3d-printing-in-general</a><a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/3dprinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#3dprinting</a> <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/3dPrinter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#3dPrinter</a> <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#patents</a> <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/patenttroll" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#patenttroll</a>

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:20 years ago <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/RedHat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#RedHat</a> made a promise to never use their <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#patents</a> against <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a> projects and developers. We updated it 2017. It still stands. And will stand. Software patents are a problem, not a solution. We have to deal with it pragmatically. We do. <a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/about/patent-promise" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://www.redhat.com/en/about/patent-promise</a>

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