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Rooting and flashing your device does not void the warranty in EU

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During our Free Your Android -workshops we often receive the question, if rooting your device (e.g. an +

Most of the participants in our Free Your Android +workshops are concern whether rooting your device (e.g. an Android phone) and replacing its operating system with something else voids -your statutory warranty, if you are a consumer? We asked our legal coordinator +your statutory warranty as consumer. We asked our legal coordinator Matija Šuklje and FSFE legal council Carlo Piana to analyse the problem. Their answer is: No. "Just the fact that you modified or changed the software of your device, is not a sufficient reason to void your statutory warranty. As -long as you have bought the device as a consumer in the European Union." Read +long as you have bought the device as a consumer in the European Union." Read throughout their whole + href="http://matija.suklje.name/rooting-and-flashing-your-device-does-not-void-the-warranty-in-eu"> analysis.

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We hope that encourages many people to flash their devices with Free +

We hope these news will encourage people to flash their devices with Free Software. Next opportunity to attend on of our Free Your Android workshop is on -the 9th of November at FSCONS in +the 9th of November at FSCONS, in Sweden, and on the 16th of November at SFCON in Italy.

+ href="https://2012.sfscon.it/en/program">at SFCON, in Italy.

Facts about software patents by the New York Times

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The New York Times published the article The New York Times published an article entitled - "The Patent, Used as a Sword" about the patent system. Hugo Roy provides -a summary - of the article: It is about how Apple and Google are spending more on -patents than on research and development in 2011, that the number of lawsuits -filed each year in the US has tripled from 1990 to 2010, that 70% of patent -applications are approved after the applicant altered claims, and much -more.

+ "The Patent, Used as a Sword" about the patent system. Hugo Roy + summaries + it. It is about how Apple and Google were spending more on +patents than on research and development in 2011. Among other issues, it focuses on the number of lawsuits +filed each year in the US, which has tripled from 1990 to 2010, and how 70% of patent +applications are approved after the applicant altered claims.

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On the same topic Karsten Gerloff On the same topic, Karsten Gerloff gave a talk about "How Software Patents Are Delaying The Future", on a -discussion panel organised by the European Patent Office. "Currently, a lot of +discussion panel organised by the European Patent Office. "Currently, a lot of policy on patents (as well as copyright) is made on the basis of faith and rather dubious argument. We urgently need to move on towards evidence-based -policy making.", concludes Karsten.

+policy making", concludes Karsten.

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