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 [...]
Today it was announces that the world's largest patent database has been published online by FIZ Karlsruhe , a German organization that specializes in providing information on science and technology.According to today's news release by CORDIS, the European Union's news agency: More than 63 million patent documents from 80 patent [...]
Following the release of GPLv3 draft 3, Bruce Perens and others seemed to focus on calling us names rather than responding our analysis and concerns about new license. He was so vociferous in suggesting ACT was alone in our concerns, even we started wondering if he was right… Thankfully, level [...]
With the release of the most recent discussion draft today, one thing is immediately clear: this third version of the General Public License can be simply written “GPL v.” – where “v” stands not for “version” but for “vendetta.”There’s little doubt that this GPL 3 draft is a vendetta against [...]
Has the European Commission’s Competition arm finally gone too far in its attempts to rein in Microsoft? It may have, based on media coverage of the Commission’s decision to threaten yet another round of fines last week. Echoing the chorus of rivals and professional Microsoft-bashers, Neelie Kroes argued that Microsoft [...]