Perhaps they're trying to prevent GPL'd software being modified to include TC features. According to this article:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html,
such things could still stay within the letter of GPL as it currently stands:
"IBM and HP have apparently started work on a TC-enhanced version of GNU/linux. This will involve tidying up the code and removing a number of features. [...] Although the modified program will be covered by the GPL, and the source code will be free to everyone, it will not work in the TC ecosystem unless you have a certificate for it that is specific to the Fritz chip on your own machine. That is what will cost you money (if not at first, then eventually)."
...or is being paid to release it when it's unconfirmed..
Are you suggesting that the esteemed 'McMaster' university, CA, (or its 'McProfessor' of 'McAnthropology') might be less than reputable? Or that the name Gigantopithecus blackii (="Great big black thing"?) might not have been agreed upon by the wider anthropological community?
Andrew Knight is the inventor of Storyline Patents...
I think this shows his true intentions. He plans to patent the storyline patent, so that he can then charge extortionate licence fees for every patent filed.
In UK we have a kind of 'voluntary code of conduct' enforced by BT and the telecoms regulator. If you're a BT customer you can sign up to a blacklist; telemarketers aren't allowed to phone you if you're blacklisted, and can lose their licence if do. It worked up until recently, when they realised that they only had to move their operations abroad and they'd be beyond the reach of the regulator. Now I get plagued by the same sales calls as ever, only they're now coming from Indian or USA.
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In UK we have a kind of 'voluntary code of conduct' enforced by BT and the telecoms regulator. If you're a BT customer you can sign up to a blacklist; telemarketers aren't allowed to phone you if you're blacklisted, and can lose their licence if do. It worked up until recently, when they realised that they only had to move their operations abroad and they'd be beyond the reach of the regulator. Now I get plagued by the same sales calls as ever, only they're now coming from Indian or USA.