Posted on April 9, 2010 by Simon Phipps
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While this is fantastic and much-needed news, it will take a Supreme Court decision to truly address the abuse of patent and copyright laws to prevent innovative uses of DNA information.
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A list showing which MPs voted for the Digital Economy Bill. These people prefer corporations over citizens and probably don’t deserve your vote in the election.
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Posted on April 9, 2010 by Simon Phipps
I’ve had some useful communications from a variety of well-informed people after yesterday’s blog about IBM and TurboHercules, and two things are clear from what I’ve heard:
- The case IBM has against TurboHercules has many murky layers and it’s pretty pointless trying to decide from the outside who is right. Certainly the sources we’ve heard so far are insufficient and have unclear motivations, especially knowing that Microsoft’s puppy CCIA is involved. I am not in any way interested in calling either IBM or TurboHercules evil on the evidence so far. To be clear: I have no view on the merits of the actual issue between IBM and TurboHercules.
- IBM’s actions in the case lack the necessary internal oversight for some reason. IBM messed up in allowing a document to leave the building suggesting any of the patents they had pledged to protect open source software would be used against it, and they need to admit the error and apologise. We all make mistakes, and when we make them most of us are called to account. I see no reason why IBM should be exempt. Continue reading →
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