Today in Techrights

• What Insiders Are Saying About the Sad State of the European Patent Office (EPO)
• The EPO Does Not Want Skilled (and ‘Expensive’) Staff, Layoffs a Growing Concern
• Patents Roundup: Accenture Software Patents, Patent Troll Against Apple, Willful Infringements, and Apple Against a Software Patent
• Software Patents Propped Up by Patent Law Firms That Are Lying, Further Assisted by Rogue Elements Like David Kappos and Randall Rader (Revolving Doors)
• Links 25/9/2016: Linux 4.7.5, 4.4.22; LXQt 0.11

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today's leftovers

• ReactOS running on General Dynamics Itronix GoBook III IX260+ Military Laptop

• The third beta of FREE FPS ‘Ravenfield’ is out, the game keeps getting better

• Promising top-down shooter ‘Redie’, inspired by Hotline Miami, needs support on Kickstarter, demo available

• MATE 1.16 released

  After 6 months of development the MATE Desktop team are proud to announce the release of MATE Desktop 1.16. We’d like to thank every MATE contributor for their help making this release possible.

• Breeze icons need you: new colors and shapes for mimetypes

• We’re looking for a GNOME developer

  We in the Red Hat desktop team are looking for a junior software developer who will work on GNOME. Particularly in printing and document viewing areas of the project. The location of the position is Brno, Czech Republic, where you’d join a truly international team of desktop developers. It’s a junior position, so candidates just off the university, or even still studying are welcome. We require solid English communication skills and experience with C (and ideally C++, too). But what is a huge plus is experience with GNOME development and participation in the community.

• MakuluLinux LinDoz 12 Beta is Ready !

• [Older] This is Zorin OS 12

  We’re excited to announce the release of the Zorin OS 12 Beta. This is a pre-release version which we have created to get your feedback & bug reports on what we’ve built so far.

• [Older] Elementary OS Loki Release Follow Up

  It’s only been a short couple of weeks since we released the latest version of elementary OS, but we already have so much to share! We’re happy to say that Loki has already passed 45,000 downloads, from 157 different countries since release with 2/3rds of those downloads coming from closed sourced OSes. We’re super proud to be reaching people all over the world who are new to an Open Source operating system. Congratulations to everyone who switched!

• Fedora Ambassadors: Measuring Success

  I have been a Linux dabbler since 1994 when I first tried Suse Linux. In 2006 I became a full-time Linux user when I converted by laptop to Linux in October of 2006. Like many Linux users I sampled many different distributions while choosing the one that best fit my personality. Eventually I settled on Ubuntu with the release of Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibon). Despite choosing Ubuntu I always saw myself as a Linux and open source advocate first and an Ubuntu advocate second. I respected and valued that Linux and open source allowed people the freedom to make personal choices.

• Azure from Debian

  Around a week ago, I started to play with programmatically controlling Azure. I needed to create and destroy a bunch of VMs over and over again, and this seemed like something I would want to automate once instead of doing manually and repeatedly. I started to look into the azure-sdk-for-python and mentioned that I wanted to look into this in #debian-python. ardumont from Software Heritage noticed me, and was planning to package azure-storage-python. We joined forces and started a packaging team for Azure-related software.

• Turn The Raspberry Pi Zero Into A Mini Dongle Computer

• N900/Neo900: September 2016 Update

  To break even, the project needs to produce and sell 800 Neo900 devices. Currently, we have around 350 pre-orders, and sourced a bit more than 100 N900 units to refurbish.

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