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 [...]
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 [...]