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Long-time readers of this blog will know that I like to point out that software patents shouldn't be allowed because (among other reason...

Copyright has its convenient myths. The principal one is that copyright is intellectual *property*, which taps into our natural tendency to...

As long-suffering readers of this blog will know, one of the many reasons I am against software patents is that software consists of algorit...

As long-suffering readers of this blog will know, one of the reasons I regard software patents as dangerous is because software consists of ...

One of my computer heroes, Donald Knuth, has sent a message to the head of the EPO, hoping to convince her that every algorithm is sacred, ...

Yesterday I was praising Red Hat's submission to the EPO in its pondering of the patentability of software. Today, it's the FSFE...

This is just incredible : Major media companies are increasingly lobbying Google to elevate their expensive professional content within the ...

Regular readers will know that I have a bee in my bonnet about the non-patentability of software, largely because of the fact that software ...

Although I've written elsewhere about the recent court case of Symbian v Comptroller General of Patents, noting that it was bad news, I ...

Why is there always this Jesuitical casuistry when it comes to software? We have the following: what goes on inside a computer can be said...

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Europe does not allow software patents, but that doesn't stop some people - patent lawyers, mostly - from circumventing that clear and s...

I often witter on about open access , assuming people know what I'm talking about. But if you'd like a little historical background...

Nice to see algorithms getting some respect : Algorithms, as closely guarded as state secrets, buy and sell stocks and mortgage-backed secur...

I've written before about Microsoft's Photosynth, which draws on the Net's visual commons - Flickr, typically - to create three...

Now here's an interesting thing : Developing the Future is an annual report examining the impact of the software development industry on...

Digg occupies such an emblematic place in the Web 2.0 world that it's important to understand what's really going on with this incre...

After the right espousing open source and related open goodness yesterday, today we have the left. More specifically, we have something ca...

Paul Graham is a master stylist - indeed, one of the best writers on technology around. Reading his latest essay, " Are Software Paten...