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- Open Source and the Law
- This is the final installment of our FOSS series. Hope you enjoyed it.The success of open source business models will, in the future, lead to changes in the law. The current copyright and patent regimes date from the 1990s, when proprietary business models were at their height and the Internet...
- Tags: open source, digital-rights management, regime
- Blog posts 2006-08-25
- Political ideals and business
- In recent congressional hearings, senators lambasted Yahoo, Google, Cisco and Microsoft for giving in to demands of the Chinese government in their effort to restrict the kinds of information to which its citizens have access. Restrictions on information are a bad thing, to be sure, but if the choice...
- Tags: regime
- Blog posts 2006-02-15
- Efficient Bayesian Inference for Learning in the Ising Linear Perceptron and Signal Detection in CDMA
- Efficient new Bayesian inference technique is employed for studying critical properties of the Ising linear perceptron and for signal detection in Code Division Multiple Access CDMA. The approach is based on a recently introduced message passing technique for densely connected systems. Here both critical and non-critical regimes are studied in...
- Tags: Regime, CDMA, Bayesian, Bayesian Inference Technique, Cellular Phones, Productivity, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2005-10-18
- Apache falls victim to OASIS patent shelter
- Ever since a debacle with ebXML subsequently diffused and, later, the way the Web Services Interoperability organization (the WS-I) selected Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards OASIS as the venue for "ratifying" certain Web services standards (as opposed to going through the more IP-progressive World Wide Web consortium...
- Tags: intellectual property regime, OASIS, regime, intellectual property
- Blog posts 2005-07-11
- A devilish argument for open source
- Please note. I don't believe the following. I am making a devil's advocate argument in order to stimulate discussion. Maybe this can get us through the weekend. It occurred to me, seeing how Brazil and other developing nations are warming to open source, often with the blessing of U.S. universities,...
- Tags: open source, regime
- Blog posts 2005-03-18
Additional Resources
- So what about mobile labs?
- So what about mobile labs?Doesn't scaleIf you've got one or two carts in a smallish school, it can work pretty well, in part because using them is a special event. If you've got, say four or five carts in a school, it is pretty much a full time job...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, mobile lab, mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Vodafone's Big(ish?) Adventure
- It's fun to think of similes to categorise the headlong rush towards CO2 reductions or at least the pledges for such. I think of Vodafone's pledge of a 50% cut of the 2007 baseline by 2020 as a 'Big Adventure'. They have not yet clearly identified how they will get there yet...
- Tags: Vodafone Group Plc., Carbon Dioxide, Climate Situation, Jonathon Porritt, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Tim Berners-Lee talks cranberry sauce and Linked Data in New York City
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee took to the stage in New York City last night, to deliver the final keynote of the day at JupiterMedia's new semantic web event, Linked Data Planet. The ballroom of the Roosevelt Hotel was certainly busier than earlier in the day, as a smattering...
- Tags: Tim Berners-Lee, Brand, URI, Data, Tim, RDF, Semantic Web, Branding, XML, Printers, Internet, Marketing, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Hardware, Peripherals, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Lollicams
- According to The Register, there were 1,400 incidents of crossing guard abuse (driving past while they're in the road, revving engines, shouting epithets, etc.) reported in the UK last year. Dozens of guards (they're called "lollipop ladies" because of the signs they carry and because, apparently, few of them are...
- Tags: Camera, Sign, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Breaking the dialogues of the deaf
- Breaking the dialogues of the deafre:.I love how you think of everything in black and white terms... its refreshing. But what if you consider this cognitive dissonance in computing security to be a market itself? Most people don't actually understand very much about the subject due to not their capacity...
- Tags: security, information technology, Cognitive Dissonance
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- Market disaster on Wall Street plays positive in Silicon Valley
- You may think the U.S. is divided along political lines, perhaps you sense a rift in cultural values. But let me tell you that's peanuts compared to the coming brutal high-stakes rift over the core of the US economy. Will it be Pentagon contracts, oil and gasoline? ...
- Tags: Clean Technology, Wall, Construction, Mortgages, Investment, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-07
- Rule change: we're playing corporate greenmail now
- Canada is the first to offer a ransom. The government there will give GM money if GM will keep Canadians employed. So the rush to subsidize what might be a viable efficient new car from GM...or might not be, is clearly on. It's not expected the current...
- Tags: Canada, Clean Technology, General Motors Corp., Engineering, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Got science?
- Got science?Great article!I'd love to believe that a political regime change (that we'll hopefully see in November) can bring us some progress in this area. Hopefully not more business as usual if the Dems can be believed. We'll see.Chris DawsonLeading Nuclear Research is now done in...India.Remember when the...
- Tags: Nuclear Research, ozone, Thomas Jefferson
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Got science?
- It seems there are numerous American scientists who feel bereft. I can relate, because I am related. I have two brothers who are physicists, like our father before them. My father drove a beat-up pick-up truck with a bumper sticker that read, "Legalize Physics." That was...
- Tags: Science, Scientist, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Windows 7: Now a late 2009 deliverable (again)
- It sounds like Microsoft is aiming to get Windows 7 out earlier than it promised -- at least if you believe the company's CEO. During his fireside chat with Chairman Bill Gates at the D6 conference on May 27, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledged that Microsoft was...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- 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
- Does open source mandate change in copyright law?
- In their paper Money Ruins Everything, Australian law professor Dan Hunter and economist John Quiggin right argue that open source and Internet creativity mandate changes in copyright law, which now favor industries whose costs have disappeared. "If copyright industries were, as once was the case, the only path for content...
- Tags: Open Source, Industry, Copyright Law, Monopoly, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Lessig: Bill to fix orphaned works is 'unfair and unwise'
- Larry Lessig championed the need to fix copyright law with regard to "orphan works" – those works that are covered by copyright but whose owners are unknown. He was a guiding force behind the Internet Archive's 2004 suit to get the courts to address the issue. (See Free the...
- Tags: Larry Lessig, Work, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Ready for the iProd?
- I felt certain this was an April Fool's joke, but apparently there's a real patent application behind it. (Picture from New Scientist.) Call it the iProd. The idea is you load it with answers to health-related questions, which the device uses to create a...
- Tags: Monitor, Health Care, Monitors & Displays, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Hardware, Components, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Bill would penalize companies that aid net censorship
- Bill would penalize companies that aid net censorshipThis is nonsense ...Any company wanting to do business anywhere in the world has to abide by the laws of that nation. We cannot imposed the First Amendment on the Chinese Government any more than they can imposed censorship on us. ...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, censorship
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
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