{"id":318,"date":"2004-12-16T17:05:25","date_gmt":"2004-12-16T07:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=318"},"modified":"2004-12-16T17:05:25","modified_gmt":"2004-12-16T07:05:25","slug":"weatheralls-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/16\/weatheralls-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Weatherall’s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you don’t already – point your RSS feed reader over to Weatherall’s Law<\/a><\/p>\n

and examine her most recent writings about Software Patents.<\/p>\n

Kim describes her blog as “Being the thoughts and comments of an Australian IP Academic on IP, IT, etc.”<\/p>\n

There is, of course, the legal disclamier that the views expressed there are her own and not that of….<\/p>\n

which for some reason makes me giggle. Maybe it’s because she’s a lawyer and isn’t just putting it on there to sound cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you don’t already – point your RSS feed reader over to Weatherall’s Law and examine her most recent writings about Software Patents. Kim describes her blog as “Being the thoughts and comments of an Australian IP Academic on IP, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","category-linux-aus","category-mysql"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-58","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":309,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/01\/new-copyright-amendment-bill-in-australian-parliament\/","url_meta":{"origin":318,"position":0},"title":"New Copyright Amendment Bill in Australian Parliament","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2004-12-01","format":false,"excerpt":"Weatherall's Law It is important that you read and understand the implications of what is going through our parliament at the moment. 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