Over the weekend I watched the latest installment of “Project Runway” that my DVR had so thoughtfully recorded and about halfway through the episode we got to the part where something goes terribly wrong for one of the designers. (Just like other “reality” shows, every episode of ProjRun follows a [...]
Slashdot's recent discussion of how an Australian research/tech transfer agency enforced its patent rights against 14 of the world's largest tech companies has what everybody should view as a happy ending: reinvestment. Australia's CSIRO has "injected $150 million from the proceeds of its wi-fi technology to the once-defunct science and [...]
It’s a term that’s been thrown around a lot over the past couple of years, at times being more popular than at others. Now seems to be one of those times when “innovation” is the hot word—but what the heck does it even mean?I was at a Business of Innovation [...]
The Google book search settlement seemed all but wrapped up in a bow, that is, until hundreds of objections were filed with the Court, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on September 10 examining the antitrust, privacy and copyright issues implicated by the deal, and then the Department of Justice [...]
Caution: because I am talking about code libraries, this discussion will be technical - a combination of the worst of geek and lawyer-speak. Sorry.I had a discussion with a colleague yesterday about Apple’s choice of licenses used for open-sourcing of its Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) concurrency framework, which is a [...]