As President of the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), I'm here today representing thousands of information technology businesses and professionals. ACT is a national education and advocacy group representing mostly small and mid-sized technology companies. We advocate market solutions by encouraging investment, innovation, and competition in the IT industry. ACT [...]
Escalating rhetoric on both sides of this question is making it hard to reach consensus about what's fair or what's fair use. But there is broad consensus on a few points: To answer "What's fair?", Congress and the courts must balance the interests of content owners and content users. A [...]
Adobe’s Response on PDF Battle Does Little to Answer Industry Concerns Washington, DC – After waiting more than a week to respond, Adobe's statement on its dispute with Microsoft only reaffirms that it is turning the PDF format from an open standard into a double standard. "Adobe's statement does little [...]
Reform & the U.S. Patent System: Big Stakes for Small Business Patent Reform Must Focus on Small Firms That Drive Innovation New Report Finds Real and Perceived Problems with Quality, Pendency and Cost, Keep Many Small Firms from Taking Advantage of this Critical Resource Washington, DC – Significant reform of [...]
Open Source Hypercharges Software Market Competition Open source software (OSS) has undoubtedly injected competition and innovation to the industry at large and is no longer the sole domain of a small sect of iconoclastic programmers. Open source products such as Linux, Apache Web Server, MySQL, and Perl have found great [...]