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Last week Mike wrote about a new patent from Intellectual Ventures that seeks to assert ownership of the idea of DRM for 3D printing. ...

Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that I write a lot about software patents. The reason is simple: they represent probably the g...

When it was first announced that the FSF had filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cisco, some were predicting that this was going ...

There's no doubt that more and more scrutiny is being applied to patents around the world, with particularly hopeful moves in the US in...

I've written numerous times about the importance of writing to governments about their hare-brained schemes, but this one is rather diff...

The world and their dog seems to be talking about Windows 7 at the moment. Ironically, in part that's because it's proving almost im...

eBay is not going through the happiest of times. Not only has it found it necessary to make 1000 people – 10% of its workforce – redundant, ...

One of the criticisms of free software is that certain classes of applications are missing. Interestingly, the FSF agrees, up to a point, a...

... is : the practice of (i) mislabeling as property a limited monopoly granted by society as a means to get, after an originally short peri...

On Open Enterprise blog .

Bruce Byfield has an interesting write-up of the FSF's High Priority Free Software Projects . Projects make this list "because the...

Has badgeware - software whose licences requires attribution to be displayed in all copies - gone legit? Roberto Galoppini seems to think ...

One of the vexed questions in the free software world is what should be done about software as a service, when the service is based on free...

...but were afraid to ask in case it made plain your inability to grok the legalistic subtleties. Though hardly an idiot's guide to the...

One of the constant themes of this blog is the pernicious effect of software patents - both in countries where they exist, like the US, and ...

So Samba has officially joined the GPLv3 dance. It's certainly a biggie, and I'm sure that over the coming months more and more su...

GPLv3 is out .

Bizarre : The FSF should realize by now their influence is waning. Look at the plethora of alternative licenses. Now they’re really hamstrin...

As I've written elsewhere , Microsoft's FUD is more interesting for what it says about the company's deepest fears than for its ...

One of the things I love about Richard Stallman's crusade for freedom is that it is so uncompromising. This means that it tends to espo...