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High tech's slow march in land mine campaign

High tech's slow march in land mine campaignIt's really quite simpleDig up the first mine, find out who made it, and then make that company responsible for making it find the rest. When they're done, make the company president walk the first mile along the "demined" tract.Hopefully, there be the...

Tags: landmine, High Tech, somewhere-ELSE

Discussion threads 2006-07-11

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Blocking the Microsoft / Novell deal

That, apparently, is the reason the release of GPLv3 has been delayed. The Free Software Foundation wants to ensure that verbiage in GPLv3 explicitly prevents arrangements wherein Microsoft signs a patent waiver with customers of a particular company (in this case, Novell). That, apparently, is not disallowed by the terms...

Tags: Novell Inc., GPLv3, Microsoft Corp., waiver, patent, IP, software, Alcatel

Blog posts 2007-03-21

EU takes aim at Apple over iTunes

EU takes aim at Apple over iTunesBe interesting to see how and when Real and MSweigh in over the Apple iTunes thing, especially Real who's been repeatedly ousted from the iPod with firmware updates from Apple as a protest of Real creating software without Apple's expressed agreement of said to...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, patent troll, desk lamp, Apple iTunes, Apple Inc., MP3, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2007-03-12

Google 'safe harbor': 'Nice' way to do business?

“Does YouTube Really Have Legal Problems?”Tim Wu, professor at Columbia Law School, takes exception with “part-time copyright theorist Mark Cuban”:When Google bought YouTube, the conventional wisdom—expressed in op-eds, newspaper articles, and scary editorial cartoons—was that they'd also bought themselves a whole heap of copyright trouble. The New York Times used...

Tags: YouTube Inc., YouTube

Blog posts 2006-10-27

Sun worries? Let your bikini do the talking

Sun worries? Let your bikini do the talkingMessage has been deleted.ObsoleteYour information is obsolete. It turns out the blast was probably caused by a landmine placed by Hezbollah. But people don't need a reason to hate Jews.What was the purpose......in bringing this up in this talkback?Carl Rapsonstay on topicYou are...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Gaza, Palestinians, shell

Discussion threads 2006-07-26

Landmines at the Patent Office

If your company uses MS Office (and who doesn't?) you may soon be deploying a patched version of Office so that Microsoft can get around a patent infringement suit that they lost. Seems that Guatemalan inventor Carlos Armando Amado was granted a patent in 1997 that covers some method...

Tags: patent

Blog posts 2006-01-30

Texas sues Sony BMG over alleged spyware

Texas sues Sony BMG over alleged spywareRe: LawsuitI figured it would be a matter of time until some state sued Sony BMG for this. I just never figured it would be Texas. Good for them, though.Texas? Hmm....Ain't that the place where they got the death penalty? ;)Why...

Tags: Viruses and worms, spyware, Microsoft Corp., Sony Corp., Sony BMG Music Entertainment

Discussion threads 2005-11-21

More Google classifieds buzz

More Google classifieds buzzOh my god more evil patentsYou mean another company is trying to scoop up patents to build up a patent portflio for control. How evil.Whoa wait a minute..its Google. Never mind its cool now.What more evil patents!You mean another company is trying to scoop up patents to...

Tags: advertisement, patent, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-11-09

Patent reform: Who's on first?

Patent reform: Who's on first?Closed source just as exposed.The only advantage they have is that people can't see all the patents they are violating. They face the same risk of "violating patents they didn't even know existed" with each line of code.---It can't be that long before some enterprising...

Tags: patent, prior art

Discussion threads 2005-09-13

Open source boss hints at Microsoft thaw

Open source boss hints at Microsoft thawHints, rumors, speculation, guesses, gossip, ....inuendo, murmoning, whispers, signals, symbols, tips, clues, intimations, mentions, indications, tip-offs,allusions, tell-tale-sign, breadcrumbs, tea leaves, something in the wind, an inkling, cue, tendency, imply, allude, infer . . . . . .C'mon ZD give us some news!The Mighty Monster...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Mike Cox, Linux, Microsoft Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2005-07-13

Patent payoffs fuel rush of new start-ups

Patent payoffs fuel rush of new start-upsOpen Source's greatest threat, the patent.About a year ago I started saying the greatest threat to open source's future was the patented software scene. Of course all the open source crowd poo-pooed me saying I had no idea what I was talking about....

Tags: patent, open source, innovation, software

Discussion threads 2004-04-12

RFID goes to war

RFID goes to warScrew RFID; Give our soldiers good armor vests first!How can they even think about spending money on gimmicks when some soldiers still get to go out on patrol without the latest and the greatest body armor available?! Some have their parents to buy the special ballistic...

Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., U.S. Department of Defense, RFID

Discussion threads 2004-03-22

Domain registrars sued over URL patent

Domain registrars sued over URL patentHmmmmmmmmmmI'm not really sure, but I would guess that the patent would not be valid because of "prior art".Well, they'll probably win since the judgemay not consider a challenge to it unless the patent office overturns it first. And I thought last year was...

Tags: Domain names, Domain Name Registrar, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, patent, domain name registrar, domain name, patent office, e-mail address, e-mail

Discussion threads 2004-01-15