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Review of Patent Defense for FOSS Developers

This is a review of Chapter 4 of the SFLC Legal Primer, Patent Defense for FOSS Developers, inside it describes the anatomy of a patent, how to deal with claims brought against you, and why you, as a FOSS developer, should not bother with patenting your software, even as a protective measure.

Anatomy...

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Writing Command Line Tools with Ruby

I’ve written a lot of Ruby code over the years from web applications, to rack frameworks, to rake tasks, even packaged a few up as gems, but one thing I’ve never done is write a command line tool directly in ruby. This post just sums up my initial foray into making Ruby cli tools, as usual with Ruby...

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Blink project: Hacking on an Arduino

For my Physical Computing & Alt Interfaces class we had to use an Arduino (I have the latest Uno) to control LED(s) in a non-trivial way. I knew I wanted to make some kind of LED matrix, but didn’t know how big of one I could make on my half sized breadboard and limited number of pins. What I ended...

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Initial thoughts for an MPD project

For my Software Development in Linux class we are making one large project over the course of the class and then packaging it up for distribution at the end (probably Debian, RPM, and AUR). This is a little bit of a paradigm shift for me personally, as for most of my projects distribution means pushing...

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Initial Review of a FOSS Primer

This section of the book is focused on copyrights and licensing issues facing FOSS projects. It starts at a high level explaining why a license is necessary and then works its way down to the details of choosing the correct license, dealing with copyright in teams and organizations, and finally how...

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