Last week, I posted that it was unfair for Red Hat to complain that Microsoft does not give free patent licenses to competitors, when it doesn't either. I explained that Red Hat's Patent Promise extends a promise not to assert Red Hat patents only to its suppliers or potential suppliers. [...]
Developing analogies is an art form. It was one that all writers dabble in, but few do really well. Sometimes, however, it goes from merely inept into truly tortured. I blame it on his time away from blogging recently, but Tim Lee’s effort to compare eminent domain abuse to software [...]
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 Internets are buzzing in response to Roger Parloff's lengthy piece in Fortune this week, which chronicles the ongoing saga the Microsoft and Novell patent/interoperability deal. Personally, I think it's a pretty balanced piece, but it doesn't paint Microsoft as a knuckle-dragging, puppy-kicking monopolist focused on the destruction of Free [...]