On February 20, the Wall Street Journal decided to publish an Op-Ed by the Patent Counsel for Immersion Corporation – a tech and patent shop which most famously owns the patent on the "force feedback" technology we all turn off on our gaming consoles. And while I am sure Ms. [...]
Richard Stallman is regularly identified as a "fair use" advocate in the press and online, but a post from Robin Good on his blog suggests that the label is off the mark, to say the least. Sounds like Squealer has started editing the Seven Commandments, er, I mean, Four Freedoms… [...]
Thomas Friedman tells us the world is flat, but national policies still matter for companies of all sizes looking to innovate and compete in the global marketplace. Yesterday we released a paper today entitled "National Policies as Platforms for Innovation: Reconciling a Flat World with Creative Cities." We announced it [...]
Last week, we announced our intention to be one of the first to give the European Commission’s FLOSS report the attention it deserves and actually read and analyze the entire 287 page report. Our goal is to go beyond the executive summary and provide a sober analysis of the report [...]
John Markoff has an interesting piece in the New York TImes today about the Digital, Life, Design conference in Munich. The theme of the piece is that the whole "World is Flat" phenomenon has removed the intitutional advantage of Silicon Valley companies. It's an interesting theory, but also a bit [...]