Archive for category Patent System
Matt Asay On IBM Patents
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Patent System on April 8, 2010
Wow. I don’t often agree with the Canonical COO, Matt Asay, on many things and even when I do in general, I often find myself in disagreement with details. In Mr. Asay’s recent piece “IBM patent claims show open source has arrived“, that’s not a problem – because I disagree with everything, filled as it is with inaccuracies [...]
Just Another Zealot
Posted by Jason in Patent System, Propriatery Technology on April 5, 2010
From the Prospect Magazine article “Mash the State“: Much government work is done by civil servants emailing Word documents back and forth. Yet Berners-Lee refuses, on principle, to use Word, which is a proprietary rather than an open source format. On one occasion, one official recalled, Berners-Lee received an urgent document in Word from one [...]
The Disappearing Article Mystery
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft, Novell, Patent System on March 24, 2010
This is strange. The Treasure I ran across some interesting quotes allegedly from Miguel de Icaza: Microsoft has shot the .NET ecosystem in the foot because of the constant threat of patent infringement that they have cast on the ecosystem [...] Unlike the Java world that is blossoming with dozens of vibrant Java Virtual Machine [...]
Andrew Tridgell on Patent Defense
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft, Novell, Patent System on March 23, 2010
End Software Patents has up a transcript and link to video of Andrew Tridgell’s talk on patent defense. Interestingly, Mr. Tridgell asserts that you should be reading patents – contrary to a lot of folk wisdom that doing so is dangerous because of “triple damages”: Andrew Tridgell: Triple damages. Right. Okay. In the free software community, [...]
On Amazon and Microsoft
Posted by Jason in Microsoft, Patent System on February 24, 2010
Business as usual I don’t get all the outrage about the recent Amazon-Microsoft patent cross-licensing deal. It’s 100% business as usual for both of the companies involved. Amazon.com Amazon is a proud champion of such innovative patents as one-click buying , and consumer reviews, both sterling examples of something not in anyway whatsoever obvious to [...]
The Innovative People of Novell
Posted by Jason in Novell, Patent System on January 30, 2010
Inventive people who write more software patents per capita than anywhere else. Software patents: A Novell metric for success.
Red Hat files Software Patent Brief
Posted by Jason in Patent System, Red Hat on October 2, 2009
Red Hat again shows how a responsible company based on Open Source should act, filing an amicus brief with the Supreme Court detailing the severe problems of the current software patent system.
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