Open Sourcing Requests

About this page

This is a “Dear Lazyweb” page where I’m trying to track down some sources. These are usually things that I would like to reference or blog about, but I either forgot to bookmark it, or lost the bookmark, or possibly hallucinated the entire thing.

I won’t put anything here I haven’t spent considerable time trying to find, so if you can track down the source you’ll not only be helping but you can boast that your Google-Fu is stronger than mine!

I put the details down the best I can remember.

Looking For:

1. A quote from a female lawyer working for Microsoft where she said something like “Microsoft certainly believes we have patents covering .NET”. I think the article context was Microsoft was in a legal dispute over patents with another company. Relatively recent, early/mid 2010.  Thanks Saul!

2. A decently argued essay about how games are more entertainment than software and what that means on advocating Open Sourcing games. For some reason I thought ESR wrote this? Older, maybe a couple of years or more.

  1. #1 by saulgoode on August 11, 2010 - 10:05 pm

    1. Perhaps from David Berlind’s Reality Check:

    According to Microsoft’s director of intellectual property Michele Herman, who I interviewed earlier this year, the answer is a qualified yes. “If someone implemented a product that conforms to the specification, we believe we have a patent or one pending that’s essential to implementing the specification.”

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