October 22, 2009
LA City Council Reads ACT’s “Paying for Free” Paper
OK, maybe nobody on the city council actually read Paying for Free, the paper where we describe the security, privacy and sustainability costs of "free" software. Still, [...]
The Meaning of Innovation—And What’s Coming Next
It’s a term that’s been thrown around a lot over the past couple of years, at times being more popular than at others. Now seems to be [...]
IDC study confirms importance of national policies for innovation
Back in 2007, ACT worked with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) to write a groundbreaking paper entitled National Policies as Platforms for Innovation: Reconciling a [...]
September 30, 2009
ICANN Goes Independent With New Accountability Mechanisms
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today took a critical step toward achieving real accountability and institutional confidence by agreeing to a new “affirmation [...]
A Strange Thing Happened on the Way to the Class Action Settlement…
The Google book search settlement seemed all but wrapped up in a bow, that is, until hundreds of objections were filed with the Court, the House Judiciary Committee [...]
A discussion about Apple’s choice of licenses used in open-sourcing Grand Central Dispatch
Caution: because I am talking about code libraries, this discussion will be technical - a combination of the worst of geek and lawyer-speak. Sorry.I had a discussion [...]