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Pretty good analysis of the IBM patent aggression from ESR: “IBM has reached a critical juncture. For the last decade the company has has had it both ways – allied with the open-source community to grow its forward-looking services business, and creamed big profits off the long-since-paid-for z-Series technology. Now these two strategies are in conflict. Whichever way this ends, IBM will probably only get to keep one of them.”
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Richard Stallman’s input on the Digital Economy Bill. Not a great contribution, unfortunately.
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If the British music industry is so urgently in need of protection by the Digital Economy Bill, how come they had their best year ever for sales in 2009 including exceptional sales of digital media? Is it possible they have been selective with the evidence they have been feeding Stephen Timms and Sion Simon of the British Labour Party?
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Creative Commons starts to address patents. This should be interesting, they have pointedly avoided patent issues until now.
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So much for IBM’s support for open source. When it’s a potential threat rather than a stick to beat their competitors, their situational ethics leads to this sort of attack. Clearly their membership of OIN and their “patent pledge” mean little in practice.
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