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As we noted a couple of weeks ago, when we wrote about India's moves to issue compulsory licences for the production of generic ver...

Yesterday I was talking about how patents are used to propagate Western ideas and power; here's a complementary story about local arti...

While some people (like me) have been fixated on the jolly good work being done in Europe in terms of boosting Firefox's market share, i...

I am a great believer in trees and the commons they form; it seems to me that going beyond preserving them to extend their coverage across t...

Some time back I noted that one of the crazier consequences of an obsession with intellectual monopolies was that vital health information -...

Sun's Java is not the only one going open source : In spite of a deal with the U.S.-based software giant Microsoft, the government pledg...

Now that the flow of highly-personal "security" information between the US and other countries is a two-way thing , I predict peop...

You had any doubts about whether intellectual monopolies were a good thing? Try this : Indonesia is refusing to provide bird flu samples to...

For millennia there has been a seeds commons - a shared store of seeds produced by farmers from this year's crop for the following year...

McNealy leaving Sun is certainly the end of an era. But the big question is: what follows? As far as Jonathan Schwartz is concerned, too m...