Late last year the European Commission released a report calling for a new industrial policy to ignite report advocated government programs (a la Airbus) based on Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS). ACT analyzed the report with a series of blog posts reviewing each section. We found that the report’s analysis is [...]
My morning news review had me chuckling this morning. Following Matt Asay’s post on the InfoWorld Open Sources blog, I watched Eben Moglen’s passionate attack on the Microsoft/Novell deal and his analysis of Microsoft’s supposed FUD strategy. In it, Moglen accuses Microsoft of going on a "Be Very Afraid" tour [...]
CNET's editor at large Michael Kanellos was brave enough to write a love letter to patents and copyright and publish it on the internet this week. In the piece, Kanellos writes:Although it's not a really popular sentiment these days, I think patents, trademarks and copyrights are simply fantastic and a [...]
The authors of H.R. 1201, the "Fair Use Act," Reps. Boucher and Doolittle, claim that it "differs fundamentally" from versions of the bill introduced in previous Congresses. In particular, they say this bill responds to copyright owners concerns by no longer allowing circumvention of technological protection measures(TPM) for purposes of [...]
For those of us that support the concept of software patents, there has always been a problem. A big one: the seemingly unending stream of idiotic software-related patents flowing out of the USPTO with big bright stamps of approval. This reality has not only given ammunition to those who morally [...]