Last week I attended the Copyright Alliance's 2008 EXPOnential in D.C. This event gave the copyright industries an opportunity to showcase their contribution to the economy and the lost revenues due to piracy. "Ho Hum" you might be thinking. However, two things really stuck me while walking through the exibits: [...]
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in Jacobsen v. Katzer, issued a very important decision in a case of first impression relating to the enforcement of software licenses. In particular, it was the first federal appellate court decision to clarify whether failure to follow obligations [...]
Thanks to Ed Paisley over at Center for American Progress for pointing me toward this interesting tidbit in the Wall Street Journal's interview with Barack Obama yesterday. Buried in the last section of the article is a section entitled "Startup Companies":Sen. Obama also proposes eliminating capital-gains taxes on start-up companies, [...]
Those of us who thought maybe Free Software was all about love and peace and breaking with the "tyranny" of copyright and other intellectual property might have been surprised by four recent heavily publicized lawsuits filed by the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) on behalf of BusyBox, a lightweight set [...]
The blogosphere has been all aflutter with the analysis that Tom Kemp at Centrify has done of the draft protocol-patent mapping provided by Microsoft for its Microsoft Communications Protocol Program (MCPP) and the Work Group Server Protocol Program (WSPP). Many people find it interesting and surprising that 80% of the [...]