I never meant to cause you any trouble, I never meant to cause you any pain The opening lines of Purple Rain serve to sum up the challenges faced by innovative SMEs around the world, seeking to protect their investments with IP. At the Internet Governance Forum, no one means [...]
Dana Blankenhorn has as an interesting but misguided post on IBM's commitment to Open Source. He suggests that support for OSS represents good citizenship, and a change of corporate culture. He actually opens by attacking another Open Source advocate, Matt Asay, for his questioning of IBM's motives. Dana says that:IBM [...]
Richard Stallman is regularly identified as a "fair use" advocate in the press and online, but a post from Robin Good on his blog suggests that the label is off the mark, to say the least. Sounds like Squealer has started editing the Seven Commandments, er, I mean, Four Freedoms… [...]
Recently, the tech press and blogging community have been buzzing over a new European Commission report on the economic impact of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) on the European information and communication technologies (ICT) sector. One thing, however, is notably missing from the online debate over the nearly 300 page [...]