{"id":468,"date":"2007-10-29T21:23:07","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T04:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/swiss-patent-survey\/"},"modified":"2007-10-29T21:23:07","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T04:23:07","slug":"swiss-patent-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/swiss-patent-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Patent Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/those-who-can-do\/\">I complained<\/a> about all those survey requests that F\/OSS developers receive from grad students who insist on surveying people from an academic post vs. obtaining real employment. Normally, I ignore them summarily (and then get testy when the authors send multiple notices or actively follow up to demand why I have not done my part).<\/p>\n<p>However, I have recently been getting survey spam with a slightly different focus. One <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ib.ethz.ch\/people\/mdapp\">Marcus Dapp<\/a>, a Ph.D. student somewhere in Swiss-land, is conducting an <em>exclusive, invitation-only<\/em> survey about how software patents impact free software projects. Apparently, he doesn&#8217;t read <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/\">Slashdot<\/a> or any of the thousands of other geek sites out there that consistently lament the topic.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, I received the survey invite due to my activity with the old <a href=\"http:\/\/tuxnes.sourceforge.net\/\">TuxNES<\/a> project (because it&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/\">Sourceforge<\/a> project and it&#8217;s technically <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/tuxnes\">&#8220;active&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; 89.76% activity last week? huh?), and <em>not<\/em> due to being on the forefront of the IP powder keg that is multimedia technology. For TuxNES and other 8-bit NES emulators, the patent situation is fairly cut and dried &#8212; the NES hardware patents expired years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime ago, I complained about all those survey requests that F\/OSS developers receive from grad students who insist on surveying people from an academic post vs. obtaining real employment. 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