The short movie “Patent Absurdity” (as can be viewed above) is looking to expand its reach

I have a request from End Softare Patents' Ciarán O'Riordan. He'd like your help. He says VC good guy Brad Feld is interested in mailing out copies of the film Patent Absurdity to 200 people... he'd like to have some help from you coming up with a list of who best to send to.

Software patent law is not for the faint hearted. Now the FSF has funded a new video where top hackers and legal experts explain where the idea came from and just why it is so bad for free software. With increasing evidence that patents harm, rather then help, innovation, is the tide beginning to turn against software patents?

Just 3 years after Google first released their Jingle extension for Jabber which they used in their GTalk application it is finally possible to use it on the open source desktop too.

"Ballad of the Patent Troll" - video criticising the likes of Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft's patent troll

It’s a measure aimed at breaking the dependence on programs that are under the control of US owners and also anticipating any claims by the patent’s owners for the use of this system in Cuba.

This Wednesday in KDE land sees the start of the Release Freeze for KDE 4.0, anticipating a final release in December. By then, KDE 4 will have been in development for two years and five months, counting from the aKademy conference in Malaga, Spain, in July 2005.

OpenShot 1.1 (non-linear video editor) was released yesterday and it addresses 40 bugs and features.

The most requested feature was probably the "Undo / Redo" support which has finally been included in OpenShot.

Other new features and improvements in OpenShot 1.1:

Miro 3.5.1 RC2 is released ! This is a bug-fix release and has improvements to conversions, torrent downloading, and resolves some playback issues.miro-logo