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 [...]
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. [...]
Over on the Tech Liberation Front, the Show Me Institute’s Tim Lee is questioning my post on the role patents played in the development of Apple’s new iPhone. Unfortunately, it seems that Mr. Lee has been brainwashed by the mythology of the anti-software patent crowd. While I don’t have time [...]
I’ve spent the past few years asking the software development community, ”Why can’t we all get along?” I became increasingly optimistic after Microsoft’s General Counsel, Brad Smith, announced Microsoft’s intention to start improving relations. At ACT’s Intellectual Property & Technology Summit in 2005, he said that, "We’re going to have [...]
Microsoft and Novell announced a collaborative effort. Whoa, this is big news! Windows and SuSE Linux, proprietary and open source, Microsoft and Novell -- working together? Well, yes, according to a recent announcement. And for this collaborative effort to have even been formalized, a required element was some intellectual property [...]