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17 May 2013
Why are Facebook, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle Backing the Fight *Against* the Blind?
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One of the more disgraceful examples of the inherent selfishness of the copyright world is that it has consistently blocked a glo...
31 January 2012
Pandora's Box 2.0: Opening proprietary code
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Open source lies at the heart of Google – it runs a modified form of Linux on its vast server farms, and uses many other free software pr...
17 November 2010
Can You Feel the Tension?
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There's an important conference taking place in Brussels next week: "Tensions between Intellectual Property Rights and the ICT sta...
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24 February 2010
Many Happy Returns, Apache
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We tend to think of free software as (mostly) new, so the fact that Apache celebrated its 15th birthday yesterday seems pretty extraordinary...
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25 August 2009
SCO What?
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I'm struck by the almost unanimous chorus of indifference that has greeted the news that a court has reversed one part of an ealier rul...
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12 August 2009
Big Bounteous Blue, or Big Bad Blue?
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One of the perennial teasers in the world of computing concerns IBM. On the one hand, you have a company that has embraced open source wide...
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20 July 2009
Patents *Are* Monopolies: It's Official
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As long-suffering readers of this blog will know, I refer to patents and copyrights as intellectual monopolies because, well, that's wha...
22 April 2009
A Timeline of Microsoft Hurt
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I've often written about particular instances where Microsoft has bullied competitors; it's a pretty sorry tale. But that story bec...
23 March 2009
Patent Commons: Uncommon but Patently Good
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News that TomTom is joining the Open Invention Network (OIN) reminded me that the latter is an example of a patent commons, where patents a...
Why TomTom is the new SCO (in the nicest possible way)
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The 2003 SCO lawsuit, for those of you too young to recall, began as a modest request for $1 billion from IBM for allegedly “misusing and mi...
09 March 2009
SCO What? It's Patently over for Copyright
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Remember SCO? It's a once-important company that developed a death-wish by suing IBM in 2003. As Wikipedia explains... On Open Enterpris...
16 January 2009
Why Open Source is Eclipsing Everything Else
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A name that I don't know as well as I should is Grady Booch: chief scientist at IBM's Rational Software unit and an IBM fellow who a...
15 January 2009
IBM the Schizophrenic
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Bad IBM : IBM today announced that it earned 4,186 U.S. patents in 2008, becoming the first company ever to earn more than 4,000 U.S. patent...
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08 December 2008
IBM Snuggles up to Ubuntu (Again)
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The announcement last week of a “Microsoft-free” desktop solution from IBM has naturally been garnering headlines, in part because it's ...
26 November 2008
IBM's ex-Mr GNU/Linux Joins Obama Policy Group
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Good news: Irving Wladawsky-Berger , the person who essentially steered IBM toward GNU/Linux - with huge knock-on effects - has joined one o...
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20 October 2008
The Real Story Behind GNU/Linux
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If the prospect of another week stretching out before you is getting you down, I've got good news. There's a post about GNU/Linux th...
07 October 2008
"IBM" Buys "Red Hat", Sort Of....
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Well, that gives an idea of the importance of this move for the world of open access: Open access pioneer BioMed Central has been acquired ...
02 October 2008
Norwegians Get the Blues
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A little while back I noted a provocative call from IBM for standards bodies to do better – a clear reference to the ISO's handling of O...
30 September 2008
The Second Life of Philip Rosedale
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Last week I chatted to the founder of Second Life, Philip Rosedale. He was telling me how happy he was that he'd found a new CEO to take...
23 September 2008
IBM Fires a Shot Across the ISO's Bows
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I've written before about the parlous state into which the once-irreproachable ISO has fallen, particularly with its flagrant disregard ...
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