July 9, 2009
Paying for Free: Security, Privacy, and Sustainability Costs for “Free” Software
Today’s tough economy creates fiscal pressures for state and federal government budgets. Resourceful policymakers are increasingly looking for ways to reduce or at least maximize their information technology (IT) spending, and utilizing free software and services is one possible direction. But what does “free” really mean?
Exponential Innovation
For more than forty years, the software development community has leveraged huge increases in computer chip performance and steady drops in chip prices to give consumers what [...]
June 30, 2009
Cablevision Lawsuit Didn’t Stop Innovation
Yesterday the Supreme Court declined to hear the television and movie producers' appeal from a Second Circuit decision which held that Cablevision's new Remote Server DVR did not [...]
Third Verse, Same as the First? Open Gov Initiative, Phase 3
Phase three of the White House's Open Government Initiative ends this Sunday, and with it a tripartite experiment on receiving public comment about how to make government [...]
World Copyright Summit: What does gridlock have to do with copyright?
Recently, CISAC hosted the World Copyright Summit in Washington,DC. Having been to my share of intellectual property conferences, I didn't expect to hear anything new or interesting. And while some panels did indeed beat [...]
IP Education — Gettin’ ’em Young
A few weeks ago I blogged about the various events that were held around town in conjunction with World IP Day on April 26. At one of [...]