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- Red Hat settles patent suit
- Red Hat settles patent suitI need clarification[i]Essentially, all that have innovated to create, or that will innovate with, software distributed under Red Hat brands are protected, as are Red Hat customers.[/i]That sounds like a Novell-M$ pact!The only way to be compatible to GPL3 is to buy the patent and release...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Red Hat Inc., DataTern/Amphion
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- Of telescopes, patents and the death of discovery
- Of telescopes, patents and the death of discoveryPatents are the greatest threat to the software industryIt should be written in our constitution, that no idea should be able to be patented or receive some kind of legal protection - only the [b]implementation[/b] of the ideas. Virtually every software developer is...
- Tags: patent
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Dems ready to cave on telecom immunity
- Dems ready to cave on telecom immunityGood.It's disgusting to go after telecoms for helping the United States government track overseas telephone conversations with known terrorist groups or nations sponsoring terrorists.Or were you one of the duped who thought this was actually about spying on Americans?Bad.we need to impeach, imprison, and...
- Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Dems, telecommunications, telecom immunity, USA IS
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- TJX whistle blower sacked?
- TJX whistle blower sacked?...Correct me if I am wrong but I thought that whistle blowers had legal protection against this type of behavior. ]:)Why not whistle blower use a proxy?That way, his ISP's IP address can be shielded and may remain anonymous?It will make it harder for someone to track...
- Tags: SECURITY, blower, TJX, Whistle Blower
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
- Google Health launches; Read the terms of service
- Google Health launches; Read the terms of serviceWow!!This is the era of minority report.Who would be foolish enough......to put all their health info on the web for the world to see and for Google to share with the rest of the world? Especially nowadays when potential employers are, ahem,...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Companies, Google Inc., Google Health, health care, terms of service
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- Straight or gay? U.S. court says Web site can't ask
- Straight or gay? U.S. court says Web site can't asktypical american BSI don't see a problem with asking. I mean, I have absolutely nothing against the gay community. I have gay friends. But I wouldn't like to have a gay roomate, in the same way that I wouldn't like to...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, INTERNET, discrimination, Web site, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-04-04
- P4P: faster, smarter P2P
- P4P: faster, smarter P2PNice write-up!This is a great explanation of P4P!Comcast recently joined the P4P Working Group, and we look forward to working with them to explore ways to optimize p2p traffic over their infrastructure.ComcastP4P would not help Comcast, Wireless providers or any other Cable provider. Unlike DSL, the...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Broadband Internet, Network technology, P4P, P2P, network, Comcast Corp., cable broadband, cable
- Discussion threads 2008-03-16
- German court protects personal data privacy
- There is a right to personal computer privacy in Germany, after all, the country's high court said Wednesday. Data stored or exchanged on PCs are protected by the German constitution, the Federal Constitutional Court, AP reports. ''Collecting such data directly encroaches on a citizen's rights, given that...
- Tags: PC, Information Technology, Privacy, Desktops, Productivity, Strategy, Security, Hardware, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Super+Friday+to+climax+Microsoft+Open+XML+push
- Super+Friday+to+climax+Microsoft+Open+XML+pushMany standards are created by vendor consortia.Allows the vendors to coordinate and interoperate more effectively. That's a worthwhile goal.Having more than one standard can also be acceptable when a single standard saves neither money nor effort. Standards then have the purpose of providing necessary documentation.But of course an...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Blogging, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Office, ISO
- Discussion threads 2008-02-05
- Gates' last CES keynote: Long on sales claims, short on futures
- Gates' last CES keynote: Long on sales claims, short on futuresNot much news of upcoming productsI'm guessing it's probably because these products aren't coming for awhile, and it wouldn't make sense to blab about them before making sure there's no issues.At least Microsoft gets that now, unlike in the past...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Gates Foundation, sales claim, Microsoft Corp., Gates IS, Apple Inc., sales
- Discussion threads 2008-01-06
- Facebook to Scoble: all your data belong to us.
- Facebook to Scoble: all your data belong to us.It seems his intentions were just .....I have just read a post by Robert Scoble (http://scobleizer.com/2008/01/03/what-i-was-using-to-hit-facebook/) that he was only trying to "export" his contacts details .. i.e. not trying to export the social graph etc. so I cant see why he...
- Tags: Facebook, social networking site, social networking, Scoble
- Discussion threads 2008-01-03
- Could open source exist without the Betamax case?
- Could open source exist without the Betamax case?RIAA is Over-ReachingI agree that the Betamax time-shifting decision was a very big deal. I don't think it has much to say for open-source software, since software wasn't even subject to copyright until the 1976 copyright revision. When that was done...
- Tags: CD, open source, Sony Betamax, Betamax Case, RIAA, MP3 Ripping
- Discussion threads 2008-01-01
- Talent as a disability
- Today's post is late due to a personal crisis. (The Vatican's bust of Janus is from Wikipedia.) It's caused by a genetic condition called ADHD/ADD. I have it, and always have. I survived school by the skin of my teeth, I was in constant trouble at college,...
- Tags: George W. Bush, Talent, Diagnosis, Disability, Policy Question, E-health, Wiki, Business Ethics, Internet, Healthcare, Online Communications, Leadership, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- America is not the world and open source is grateful
- America is still the world's leading technology power. But it's not the whole world. For this open source should be grateful. I am often reminded that our software patent regime is not the law elsewhere, meaning any claims that patents may threaten the open...
- Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- Hollywood's copyright enforcer
- Hollywood's copyright enforcerI got here from Law School - that says it allLets get businessmen back into business and put the lawyers back into home offices. From this businessman's perspective what is the difference between going to your local library and checking out the film vs pirate copies? How about...
- Tags: Lets Get
- Discussion threads 2007-08-27
- Is security the SOA showstopper?
- Is security the SOA showstopper?SOA SecuritySOA security will suffer from the same issues as any other web technology; however the ramifications are more monumental. If my service is high jacked, then all my vendors are now at risk at getting and passing tainted data. For SOA security to work it...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, SOA, SOA Security, security
- Discussion threads 2007-07-31
- Microsoft: Free and open source software violates 235 Microsoft patents
- Microsoft finally has thrown down the gauntlet and is claiming publicly that free and open-source software FOSS violates 235 Microsoft patents. That tally comes from a newly published article in Fortune. In that article, Microsoft licensing chief Horacio Gutierrez wouldn't talk specifics. He declined to specify which Microsoft patents...
- Tags: Patent, Open-source Software, Microsoft Corp., F/OSS, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-05-13
- Debates over GPLv3, Novell and Microsoft
- A post on OSNews regarding Novells official response to the recent draft of the GPLv3 led to a discussion on the merits or lack thereof of the Novell-Microsoft deal. Not surprisingly, most respondents have a negative view of the agreement. Many seem to be of the opinion that a better...
- Tags: Patents, Open Source, Microsoft, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Open-source ID project awaits Microsoft's blessing
- Open-source ID project awaits Microsoft's blessingPerhaps it's becuase microsoft wants to maintain lockinThat's the real problem.The Higgins Project people are asking for interface specifications, communications protocols, not information on how Microsoft implemented their version of the technology.Wait and see...MS is waiting as usual to make sure they can establish market...
- Tags: Leadership, open source, Microsoft Corp., Open-Source ID Project
- Discussion threads 2007-03-10
- Blackboard's Groundhog Day pledge to open source
- Blackboard Inc. has issued an open source patent pledge that may not be worth the virtual paper its printed on.Here is what the companys general counsel, Matthew Small, told Inside Higher Ed:“The pledge covers anything anyone is realistically worried about in the e-learning community. Any school can look at this...
- Tags: General, Applications, Software Licensing, Legal, Patents, education, educational groupware, pledge, groupware, open source
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
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