Archive for the 'Intellectual Property' Category
Over at Information Week, Paul McDougall has a piece that lays out some (but curiously not all) of the facts concerning the close ties between Acacia Research, who is now suing Red Hat and Novell, and Microsoft. He starts quite directly:
Less than two weeks after it hired a senior intellectual-property executive from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), [...]
The United States Green Building Council’s green building rating system (LEED-Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) has driven the development of many sustainable building products, increased awareness of what needs to be done to make buildings less damaging to the environment, and caused thousands of buildings to be built to better environmental standards than [...]
As reported by the BBC, the Church of England is considering legal action against Sony:
Cathedral row over video war game
9 June 2007
The Church of England is considering legal action against entertainment firm Sony for featuring Manchester Cathedral in a violent PlayStation video game. The Church says Sony did not obtain permission to use [...]
Of course, this is the obligatory post about the 128 bit key which defeats the AACS copy protection scheme. I am posting about it here to re-affirm my First Amendment rights, as everyone who values their freedoms is, in fact, obligated to do. It is inherently wrong to restrict freedom of speech, and [...]
Recently, while using one of my very favorite applications, GoogleEarth, a notice came up to upgrade to the new version. The notice provided a link to a shell script that updated GoogleEarth flawlessly, and kept all of my data, such as favorite places. So now I am using:
Google Earth : 4.0.2735
Build Date [...]
If an important story concerning an issue of manifest public concern shows up in the New York Times only five years after its been written about in many well-researched books, is it still really a newspaper? Don’t we maybe need another word? What about all those images in the popular culture of newspapers rushing [...]
Well, it appears that Indonesia is wondering why it should continue it’s efforts obtaining, identifying, processing and purifying bird flu samples, if WHO is going to give them to just a few Western big pharmaceutical concerns, so those concerns can in turn patent the resulting vaccines, and later extract monopoly prices, and in the process [...]
I was reminded the other day of an interesting passage in Fritjof Capra’s book Hidden Connections:
Although mycoplasm are minimal cells in terms of their internal simplicity, they can only survive in a precise and rather complex chemical environment. As biologist Harold Morowitz points out, this means that that we need to distinguish between [...]
A Process that (very strangely) is under the radar of most right now is the expansion of the Not-for-Profit Sector into fields that were traditionally the exclusive reserve of the for profits. There was an interesting article in The McKinsey Quarterly* a while back that caught my attention with some facts about the Not-for-Profit [...]
Well here we have real irresponsibility, and it’s just one of many examples of the USA health infrastructure falling to sub-standard oversight. In typical fashion, this has received almost no press coverage, and caters to the interests of the pharmaceutical industry and the mega-food manufacturers, ignoring the advice of the American Medical Association and [...]
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