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Patent reform: Stopping the insanity or inventor ripoff?

Over the summer, a jury handed down a record-setting award in a patent infringement case against Microsoft: $1.5 billion. Alcatel-Lucent claimed Microsoft had infringed their patents in the "backup HQ encoder" in Windows Media Player. The jury calculated the damages by giving Alcatel-Lucent 0.5 percent of the average cost of...

Tags: Patent, Perlman, Microsoft Windows, Intellectual Property, Operating Systems, Software, Research & Development, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-01-13

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Patent reform: Stopping the insanity or inventor ripoff?

Patent reform: Stopping the insanity or inventor ripoff?Yes, the awards are completely outrageous.That would be like you inventing a 10 dollar switch an Ford comes along and not paying you for the idea and you get an infringing award of $100 on each car instead of the added value of...

Tags: disincentive, inventor, Patent Reform, insanity, patent

Discussion threads 2008-01-14

So what's an application, anyway?

So what's an application, anyway?Unix Museum - Exhibit AConfiguration files that are only validated at run time - even for being syntactically correct, never mind type or any other kind of consistency checking.This applies both to Unix itself and to many Unix system applications or utilities (or whatever you want...

Tags: essay, Bach, Unix Museum, Unix, compilation

Discussion threads 2007-11-07

Podcast Interview with Sun's Tim Bray and Radia Perlman

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the World Wide Web, today I interviewed two distinguished people from Sun Microsystems - Tim Bray Director of Web Technologies and Radia Perlman Distinguished Engineer. Here is the podcast interview [37 mins, 17MB]. Both have been in the computing business a long time...

Tags: Web

Blog posts 2006-08-09

The art of programming

The art of programmingArt or science?I am not denying that well written code could in some way be aesthetically pleasing or for that matter that successful artists and engineers share a similar intense dedication to mastering their craft. I do however think that programming is a scientific and mathematical discipline...

Tags: Principia Mathematica, programming

Discussion threads 2005-06-27

Enterprise product roundup from Demo

Demo included a number of new and recycled enterprise products worth mentioning. Real Software rolled out REALbasic 2005, a new RAD tool aimed at Visual Basic  and Java developers that creates native cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac) code.  CEO Geoff Perlman described it as an object-oriented software design environment that can deliver enterprise-class...

Tags: Demo

Blog posts 2005-02-16