Microsoft unveils new open source website
Matusow’s blog points out that “Microsoft [today] launched its new open source web site.” InsideHigherEd reports that “Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada [this week] announced his plan to prevent campus [...]
Is Web2.0 a Parasite on Open Source?
There seems to be a growing sense among the Free Software community that Web2.0 companies are not living up to their end of the bargain. Last month, Eben Moglen began [...]
European Commission wants to make it easier for small firms to conduct cross-border business
The Register reports that “[t]he European Commission wants to create a form of company across Europe to make cross-border business easier to conduct for small firms.” Internal Market Commissioner Charlie [...]
Nobel Prize Winner to study the impact of different economic systems on entrepreneurship and innovation
Inc.com writes that “[t]he Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has awarded a research grant to Nobel Prize winner Edmund S. Phelps to fund a three-year study comparing entrepreneurship in the United [...]
Eminent Domain and Software Patents: Or How I Learned to Torture an Analogy
Developing analogies is an art form. It was one that all writers dabble in, but few do really well. Sometimes, however, it goes from merely inept into truly tortured. I [...]
U.S. is still a strong force in the world of science and technology
A new report by the National Science Foundation (NSF) finds that “the number of U.S. science and engineering (S&E) articles in major peer-reviewed journals flattened in the 1990s, after more [...]