This latest blog from Dana Blankenhorn is the silliest thing I have read in a long time. He claims that "Open Source Needs Lobbyists" to defeat the evil proprietary firms in state capitols and Washington. He doesn’t seem to realize that they already exist…lots of them. I haven’t made any [...]
ACT Joins 26 other organizations in sending a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Act. The Full Letter in PDF Format
VentureBeat writes that “ITerating.com, a New York company, has launched the first Wiki-based directory of software.” The directory covers “open source, commercial and hosted software.” The International Herald Tribune reports that “[t]he European Convention on Human Rights has just been updated for the Internet age to include the basic right [...]
The International Herald Tribune reports that the House of Representatives was scheduled today to vote on legislation that clarifies the law barring for-profit companies from using names that sound like official government agencies. The vote comes on the heels of Internal Revenue Service commissioner, Mark Everson, warning twice in the [...]
In an article entitled “Business leaders say climate for startups worse than ten years ago”, the Guardian points out that, according to the British Chambers of Commerce, “British business thinks it is harder to start a new venture now than 10 years ago in spite of the government's talk of [...]
