There are two related articles in today's papers that - one on technology and the other on yesterday's Microsoft antitrust hearing. A New York Times article discusses thin client computing, a technological development that will provide new competition to traditional PCs and desktop software. And a Washington Post article describes [...]
Sometimes it takes traveling abroad to remind me of the many good qualities of the U.S, including a wide variety of restaurants, fixed shower heads, and ESPN. But seriously, there is one feature of the U.S. that is the envy of the world – innovativeness. I'm here at the Economic [...]
I'm heading to Poland this weekend to speak at the Krynica Economic Forum, the most prominent public policy conference for Central and Eastern Europe. ACT is sponsoring a daylong session on public policy and innovation, on which I've organized four panels: Localizing the Lisbon Strategy – How to Cultivate Innovation [...]
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 [...]