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22 July 2009
No Patents for Circuits? Since You Insist...
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I love this argument : Arguments against software patents have a fundamental flaw. As any electrical engineer knows, solutions to problems i...
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21 July 2009
Has Google Forgotten Celera?
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One of the reasons I wrote my book Digital Code of Life was that the battle between the public Human Genome Project and the privately-funde...
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Building on Open Data
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One of the great things about openness is that it lets people do incredible things by adding to it in a multiplicity of ways. The beatuy is...
20 July 2009
British Library Turns Traitor
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I knew the British Library was losing its way, but this is ridiculous : The British Library Business & IP Centre at St Pancras, London c...
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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...
17 July 2009
Harvard University Press on Scribd
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This sounds like a great move : It’s a recession. Save the $200,000 you were going to spend on that Harvard education and check out some of ...
Gadzooks - it's ZookZ from Antigua
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I've been following the rather entertaining case of Antigua vs. US for a few years now. Basically, the US government has taken a "...
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16 July 2009
Why Most Newspapers are Dying
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This is something that's struck me too: as is oh-so-typical in these situations, Osnos does nothing at all to engage or respond to the ...
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(Open) Learning from Open Source
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As regular readers of this blog will know, I am intrigued by the way that ideas from free software are moving across to different discipline...
Now You Too Can Contribute to Firefox...
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...with your money : This pilot allows developers to request an optional dollar amount for their Firefox Add-on. Along with requesting this ...
15 July 2009
Bill Gates Gets Sharing...Almost
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Yesterday I wrote about Microsoft's attempt to persuade scientists to adopt its unloved Windows HPC platform by throwing in a few free ...
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14 July 2009
Hamburg Declaration = Humbug Declaration
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You may have noticed that in the 10 years since Napster, the music industry has succeeded in almost completely ruining its biggest opportuni...
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I Fear Microsoft Geeks Bearing Gifts...
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Look, those nice people at Microsoft Research are saving science from its data deluge: Addressing an audience of prominent academic researc...
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Batik-Makers Say "Tidak" to Copyright
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Yesterday I was talking about how patents are used to propagate Western ideas and power; here's a complementary story about local arti...
13 July 2009
National Portrait Gallery: Nuts
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This is so wrong: Below is a letter I received from legal representatives of the National Portrait Gallery, London, on Friday, July 10, reg...
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Are Patents Intellectual Monopolies? You Decide
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Talking of intellectual monopolies, you may wonder why I use this term (well, if you've been reading this blog for long, you probably d...
What Are Intellectual Monopolies For?
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If you still doubted that intellectual monopolies are in part a neo-colonialist plot to ensure the continuing dominance of Western nations, ...
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10 July 2009
This Could Save Many Lives: Let's Patent It
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Bill Gates is amazing; just look at this brilliant idea he's come up with: using large fleets of vessels to suppress hurricanes through ...
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Do We Need Open Access Journals?
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One of the key forerunners of the open access idea was arxiv.org, set up by Paul Ginsparg. Here's what I wrote a few years back about ...
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08 July 2009
Not Kissing the Rod, Oh My Word, No
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Becta today [6 July 2009] welcomes Microsoft's launch of the new Subscription Enrolment Schools Pilot (SESP) for UK schools, which provi...
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Policing the Function Creep...
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Remember how the poor darlings in the UK government absolutely *had to* allow interception of all our online activities so that those plucky...
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07 July 2009
Are Microsoft's Promises For Ever?
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This sounds good: I have some good news to announce: Microsoft will be applying the Community Promise to the ECMA 334 and ECMA 335 specs. E...
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03 July 2009
The Engine of Scientific Progress: Sharing
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Here's a post saying pretty much what I've been saying, but in a rather different way: Here we present a simple model of one of the...
02 July 2009
Patents Don't Promote Innovation: Study
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It's extraordinary how the myth that patents somehow promote innovation is still propagated and widely accepted; and yet there is practi...
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01 July 2009
Help Me Go Mano a Mano with Microsoft
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Next week, I'm taking part in a debate with a Microsoft representative about the passage of the OOXML file format through the ISO proces...
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