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- The best protection for software assets
- Support and development."You have to reveal your invention. The rights don?t last that long."They do last too long, frankly. Software technology changes very fast. Most products are well beyond the end of their life cycle by the time a patent expires. Pretty much all of our IP stuff is way...
- Tags: asset, patent, Fight Club, software
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- Will open source biology get anywhere?
- Any patent based on publicly funded researchshould be public domain as a matter of law. It is amazing that public money gets poured into research labs, and when a discovery is made it is handed over to Big Pharma along with all the intellectual property.Talk about yet another instance of...
- Tags: open source biology, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- OIN spearheads review of Microsoft FAT patents
- The Open Invention Network is making good on its pledge to try to overturn the Linux-related patents that were contained in Microsoft's recently settled litigation against TomTomNV. OIN announced today that three patents in the lawsuit -- including those the deal with the creation of long and...
- Tags: Patent, Prior Art, Microsoft Corp., OIN, Open Invention Network, Peer-to-Patent, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- IBM passes open source license baton to Eclipse
- IBM and the Eclipse Foundation have taken a stand against license proliferation by announcing today that the Common Public License CPL has been officially superseded by the Eclipse Public License EPL. The CPL will no longer be considered an active open source license, but there's an easy migration path for...
- Tags: Google Inc., License, Eclipse, IBM Corp., Section 7, Eclipse Public License 1.0, Open Source, Java Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Show me how you beat Microsoft in patent fight
- Show me how you beat Microsoft in patent fightDid ya see thishttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/31/bridge.microsoft/index.htmlI was told in another blog that the patent is long filenames in FAT. If that is the case then we need to sue the US Patent office for giving out false patents. If they can patent...
- Tags: software movement, patent, Microsoft Corp., TomTom, GPLv2
- Discussion threads 2009-03-31
- Microsoft: Litigate on FAT, and you'll be the next Unisys
- Remember "Burn All GIFs" from 1999? In 2009, the Open Source mantra of choice could very easily turn into "Destroy all FATs" If you've been following the news in the Linux community, you've probably heard that Microsoft is currently in a lawsuit with...
- Tags: FAT32, Consumer Electronics, Patent, TomTom, Unisys Corp., File System, Microsoft Corp., Tom Tom, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- Nathan Myhrvold: Alpha patent troll?
- Nathan Myhrvold: Alpha patent troll?One thing I would like to knowHow many of those patents are actually [i]inventions[/i]?RE: Nathan Myhrvold: Alpha patent troll?That is a bit fuzzy isn't it. Initially here's all you'll find.http://www.intellectualventures.com/inv_main.aspxEveryone plays by the same rulesHow can he be considered a troll? He is doing for...
- Tags: patent, Alpha patent troll, Nathan Myhrvold, patent troll
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation
- Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violationwho do they think they are fooling?apologizing for nothing does not absolve M$ of the other grave crimes they commited in the last 20 years.The point of CodePlex is???I have a fellow developer thats completely oblivious to anything non-MS. We would discuss...
- Tags: Open Source Initiative, open source, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- Open Source in 2013
- <satire> <source> Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and get the combover right.) The hectic but repetitive routine of business and journalism often seems...
- Tags: Job, America, World Entertainment Shortage, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Eben law can have an open source business model
- Anyone can have an open source business model. Even an open source lawyer. Eben Moglen, whose Software Freedom Law Center provides free legal help to open source projects, has just announced Moglen Ravicher LLC, a for-profit law firm covering the same ground. Their first...
- Tags: Lawyer, OpenNMS, Ravicher, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- Time to regulate drug prices?
- A new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation, USA Today, and Harvard shows that most Americans now want drug prices regulated This is their chief concern with the industry. Safety and advertising are less important. The study's summary PDFÂ shows people are having a tougher...
- Tags: Compound, Dana Blankenhorn, Genentech Inc., Management, Risks, Strategy
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- Endlessly+extending+copyright
- Endlessly+extending+copyrightNot all evil is created equal[i]No they are still pirates, and advertize their similarity by using the name "The Pirates Bay."[/i]They didn't pick the terms.[i]So they don't murder people. Both the older variety and the modern version come from a fundamental lack of respect for property rights.[/i]And I maintain that...
- Tags: Government, Performance management, Operational accounting, income, performance
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- Torvalds criticizes patent trollers, Microsoft, Sun, virtualization craze
- Linux creator Linus Torvalds blasted patent trollers, Microsoft, Sun and the virtualization craze in his second official communiqué to the public. And he said desktop Linux is going nowhere in market share. In a second Q&A podcast posted on the Linux Foundation site, Torvalds told his...
- Tags: Desktop, Patent, Virtualization, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linus Torvalds, Torvalds, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- Microsoft and Samba finally come to terms over Windows protocols
- After years of public disagreement over ensuring interoperability between their respective software, Microsoft and Samba have come to terms. And not surprisingly, each vendor is offering quite a different spin on the licensing agreement they unveiled on December 20. It took an intermediary, the Protocol Freedom...
- Tags: Samba, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation'
- When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the OpenDocument Format) announced that the World Wide Web Consoritum (W3C)-backed Common Document Format CDF was the heir-apparent to what it believed...
- Tags: W3C, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., OpenDocument Foundation, ODf, Matusow, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- Laszlo demo: The write once/run anywhere (Flash,DHTML,Java,Silverlight) RIA dev tool?
- If you're like a lot of Web developers who want to turn their static Web sites in to something more rich and interactive (these days, referred to as Rich Internet Applications or RIAs), one of the challenges is in choosing a platform to target. The main choices are Adobe's...
- Tags: Desktop, Application, Platform, Rich Internet Application, Laszlo Systems Inc., Tool, Flash, OpenLaszlo, CPL, Laszlo Webtop, Open Source, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Microsoft-Novell: What a long, strange year it's been
- In what's been a controversial to say the least partnership, the Microsoft-Novell technology partnership and patent-protection arrangement has reached its one-year anniversary. Microsoft issued on November 7 a press release to mark the occasion, citing "30 new customers" that have signed up for certificates for three-year priority...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Business Structures, Linux, Open Source, Finance, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- 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
- Free Software Foundation: No GPLv3 exemptions for Microsoft
- It took the Free Software Foundation almost two months. But the organization has finally issued an official statement regarding Microsoft's claim that it won't be bound by terms of the GNU General Public License GPL version 3 as part of its patent-protection deals with open-source vendors. In...
- Tags: GPL, Novell Inc., Free Software Foundation, Microsoft Corp., GPLv3, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- Matching cancers and chemical treatments
- When oncologists meet a new patient affected by a cancer, they have to take decisions about the best possible treatment. Now, U.S. researchers have devised an algorithm which matches tumor profiles to best treatments. They've used a panel of 60 diverse human cancer cell lines from the National Cancer Institute...
- Tags: Computers &, Internet, Health &, Medicine, Science &, Nature
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
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