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• The Great Copyright Conspiracy Laid Bare
  It will come as no surprise to anyone reading here regularly, but there may be some that still don’t realise their political “representatives” have so little grasp of the dynamics of copyright and patent laws that they are willing to trade your cultural inheritance for short-term political advantage.
• Microsoft meeting with US Ambassador to Brazil regarding politics of Open Document Format (ODF) proposal to ISO
  This fits with the rest of the disgraceful behaviour by Microsoft in the same period, discrediting both themselves and the ISO standards process. Microsoft Brazil has a track record of heavy-handed politics too.
• LibreOffice Conference Programme
  Initial programme for the conference in Paris in October. I’m delighted to have been invited to give the closing address.
• Get rid of heartburn and GERD forever in three simple steps
  Interesting series of articles that suggests proton pump inhibitors (acid reducers) like omeprazole may actually make things worse. Is this for real, or is it just the drug industry softening us up for something new now PPIs are cheap?

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