| ibeardslee | yay software patents eh? | 00:55 |
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| ajmitch | morning | 20:52 |
| olly | morning | 21:37 |
| chilts | morning | 21:41 |
| chilts | ibeardslee: yeah, good news! | 21:41 |
| ojwb | anyone else find it amusing that this was announced by the commerce minister - Craig *Foss*? | 21:53 |
| chilts | yeah, I noticed that too | 21:54 |
| * ojwb can't help thinking the fight probably isn't won yet | 21:55 | |
| G | morning | 21:56 |
| mwhudson | morning | 22:02 |
| chilts | ojwb: indeed, once other countries start wading in | 22:03 |
| chilts | though, perhaps other countries will take note and start doing it themselves | 22:03 |
| chilts | like dominos | 22:03 |
| ojwb | we can only hope | 22:03 |
| mwhudson | swpatents or gay marriage? | 22:03 |
| chilts | laws seem to go in waves | 22:03 |
| ojwb | former | 22:04 |
| chilts | and yeah, I was just about to mentioned that about gay marriage | 22:04 |
| chilts | one does it, then the next feels that they're allowed to do it now | 22:04 |
| chilts | even though they're totally independent and could have done it anyway | 22:04 |
| ojwb | perhaps i'm selfish, but being neither gay nor married... | 22:04 |
| ojwb | be interesting to see a requirement to allow gay marriage rolled up into one of these multi-purpose "trade" agreements though | 22:07 |
| mwhudson | hah | 22:07 |
| mwhudson | that would be an excellent troll | 22:07 |
| chilts | heh | 22:08 |
| G | ojwb: so the issue of gay marriage would be a barrier to free trade? interesting... :) | 22:11 |
| ojwb | G: most of the things these treaties demand aren't barriers to free trade | 22:11 |
| ojwb | arguably many *introduce* barriers to free trade | 22:11 |
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