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- Google open source strategy not just a patent dodge
- Business and evil.The very first thing in Google's defense is that they make their money by providing advertising services, not by destroying the IT ecosystem with anti-competitiveness like a certain software vendor is hell-bent on doing.RE: Google open source strategy not just a patent dodge"Fact is Google has been a...
- Tags: Patent Reform, strategy, Google Inc., patent, Google open source strategy, Google open source
- Discussion threads 2009-08-07
- PirateBay founders guilty
- PirateBay founders guiltymehPiracy is NOT "ok". It's illegal, it's wrong, and it's cheap, and it's evil!Now, that being said, I'm going to a flaming pit in a handbasket when I die.The recording/movie industry has no one to blame for their "immense damages" except for themselves. They held onto business practices...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, PirateBay, tax
- Discussion threads 2009-04-17
- RIAA, BSA lawyers fill top Justice spots
- RIAA, BSA lawyers fill top Justice spotsBe careful...Be careful who has your ear, Mr. President.RE: RIAA, BSA lawyers fill top Justice spotsAnd to think of all the articles and columns I've seen by liberal tech writers over the last two months just giddy with anticipatory delight on all the wonderful...
- Tags: Ignore Justice, Business Software Alliance, RIAA, Obama
- Discussion threads 2009-01-26
- IBM sues brainiac looking to leap to Apple; Download the docs
- IBM sues brainiac looking to leap to Apple; Download the docsDid he work in or will he work in California?If so, the non-compete is unenforceable. Even if not, he can point to the recent court case in Cali that found non-competes to be unenforceable.RE: IBM sues brainiac looking to leap...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Apple Inc., doc
- Discussion threads 2008-10-31
- Congress passes 'unconstitutional' Pro-IP bill, Bush likely to veto
- Congress passes 'unconstitutional' Pro-IP bill, Bush likely to vetoGee...What a surprise that a bunch of compromised congresscritters pass another attack on the People with the backing of the "Copyright Alliance". (read, BSA, MPAA, RIAA, MS, Time Warner, Disney...)It's good that Bush will veto it. Even though he's only doing it...
- Tags: Blogging, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Bush, Pro-IP, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Would you give the Feds your computers?
- Would you give the Feds your computers?knee-jerkI completely agree. It's nice to see some sane responses, rather than knee-jerk reactions only.Why should a government entity require a warrant?Why should the library have any desire or need to protect it's users' privacy? I'd bet they have signs at the computer...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Real estate, Advertising & Promotion, warrant, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Viacom v Google: Threat to the Net -- or just Google?
- Viacom v Google: Threat to the Net -- or just Google?I just want a good source of non copy righted material.Okay I said it once but I do need a good source of open source music I can use that doesn't cost 59.95 for a power point presentation to...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, DCMA, Viacom Inc., DMCA, Google Inc., U.S. Congress, YouTube Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- European regulators targeting .Net, OOXML, server products in new Microsoft probe
- European regulators targeting .Net, OOXML, server products in new Microsoft probeIt ain't the EU, stupid.It ain't the EU, stupid. It is a separate organisation. Plus, on the Opera, Norway isn't in the EU.Be carefulthey'll call you names here.There's apparently more money and fame in nitpicking instead of handling all issues...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, RSS, server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft .NET, European Regulators, OOXML
- Discussion threads 2008-01-14
- Google looks like mobile Linux break-out
- Google looks like mobile Linux break-outI tend to doubt that it willPeople use mobile phones for telephone calling and more recently for MP3s. I seriously doubt embedded linux will do anything at all for the desktop linux movements since most people I know don't know and don't care about...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, music industry, Linux, Google Inc., mobile, mobile Linux break-out, Google Looks, break-out, Mobile Linux, phone, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-10-12
- Ballmer comments reflect deeper problems
- Ballmer comments reflect deeper problemsWell, Balmer does not want any infringing IP to be removed, that wouldkill his FUD campaigns. He of course also does not want a court reviewing all of those junk patents and having a lot of them invalidated.Kind of funny to watch him squirm.Glass houses, etc...You...
- Tags: Network technology, OPEN SOURCE, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., IP, deeper problem
- Discussion threads 2007-10-10
- Microsoft to release .Net as Shared Source
- Microsoft is making source code for the .Net Framework available to interested developers under its Shared Source license, the company announced on October 3. Microsoft will be rolling out the .Net code piecemeal, after scrubbing comments. It plans to start with the .Net Base Class Libraries, ASP.Net,...
- Tags: Developer, Source Code, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Corp., .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- The future of virtual worlds
- The future of virtual worldsThe Future Looks Good Optimystical HeightsI am a huge long time resident of the Active Worlds virtual Universe, helping artisans establish a virtual presence on the internet through the building of virtual galleries and studios on the Artshighway.com Artshiway in AW. I also tour virtual worlds...
- Tags: virtual world, virtual reality
- Discussion threads 2007-08-01
- Microsoft agitates for open-source patent pacts
- Microsoft agitates for open-source patent pactsThat'll teach who? All the people that paid license fees to SCO?Has MS called all the people that paid extortion license fees to SCO in order to use Linux to see if they will be suckered again???And, MS bought Novel, they made is so sweet...
- Tags: Linux, UNIX, BSD, Microsoft Corp., open source, Come-on Billy, open-source patent pact
- Discussion threads 2007-05-14
- Debates over GPLv3, Novell and Microsoft
- Debates over GPLv3, Novell and MicrosoftStraw men[i]Remember, Microsoft is a company just got hit by a $1.5 billion judgement over IP relating to MP3 that they thought they had already licensed. What the open source community is asking is that Microsoft completely lay down its patent defensive capacity while companies...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., Free Software Foundation, software, software patent, open source, Novell Inc., GPLv3
- Discussion threads 2007-04-03
- The EC and expropriation of Microsoft property
- The EC and expropriation of Microsoft propertyMicrosoft needs to understand what is happening.Microsoft needs to come to terms with the fact they can not appease the EC regardless of what they do or how hard they try. The EC as you noted is using their power and position to...
- Tags: Network technology, antitrust, Microsoft Corp., IP
- Discussion threads 2007-03-02
- Patent reform needs to go further
- The US Supreme Court is currently hearing arguments in a case that could result in tighter rules for new patents. By dancing around the meaning of the word "obvious," the result, hopefully, is a ruling that makes it harder for patents that are truly obvious (even though some...
- Tags: IT Management, Open Source, General, patent, Software Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2006-11-29
- In Second Life, those on 'Candid Copybot' aren't smiling
- Marty Schwimmer tipped me to the controversy swirling about use of a CopyBot tool in Second Life. (Go read Martys terrifically headlined post: CopyBot Terrorizing Residents Of SecondLife, Caught On Video.) Marty thinks this is an indication Linden Labs will have to bake more protective measures into its...
- Tags: Digital media, Linden Labs, real world, Second Life, CopyBot
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
- Google vs. Microsoft: Do you want Google to be your 'librarian'?
- "Even before we started Google, we dreamed of making the incredible breadth of information that librarians so lovingly organize searchable online," said Larry Page, Google co-founder and president of Products, in announcing Google’s aim to digitally scan libraries’ book holdings two years ago.In "Google Library’ to world: give us ‘all...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-03
- When corporations attack
- When corporations attack everything becomes political and personal. I prefer it be economic. My post Patents are Not Property, attacking an assertion by Microsoft lawyer David Rudin I found both overly-broad and disingenuous, has gotten a predictable response. (Not to mention an attaboy from Jason Matusow.) My point was...
- Tags: patent, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
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