Comments on: the extremists in power

By: iBoss

iBoss — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:22:41 +0000

Demand for Open Source Development is rapidly increasing

By: offshore outsourcing

offshore outsourcing — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:27:10 +0000

it is such a nice blog...i dont find these typ of blog these days

By: brickred

brickred — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:48:25 +0000

The balance of having extremests and moderates is very important to keep the society functional.

By: Leo

Leo — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:56:30 +0000

I dont know but why i don find such informative and profitable blogs so often,I suspect blogging world is becoming so small that we cant find such lucrative blogs like this one.

By: jerome

jerome — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:55:05 +0000

The very fact that this idea did not arise from a response to any innovative proposal, new paper, new event, legal change, new invention or new development is an indication that this was more political than it should have been.

emprunt consomation

By: jeremy

jeremy — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:08:22 +0000

The second issue brought up by Mr. Lessig is an important one, the issue of balance in intellectual-property rights. The 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act and Digital Millenium Copyright Act to today�s proposed CBDTA legislation are tipping the scales in favor of corporations at the expense of the public.
alizee

By: John

John — Sun, 26 Sep 2004 07:10:16 +0000

The reality is that many commercial products will forever exist alongside open source, as the most successful open source projects are merely the �commodity� projects: Servers, operating systems, �office� tools, languages, and general-purpose libraries. Yes, if you�re a commodity vendor enjoying your monopoly or oligopoly, that appears threatening. However, there is no intrinsic need at any level to protect commodity monopolies/oligopolies. Rather, competition should merely take place through a value proposition, as is done in any other industry. BadCitizen Forums

By: BadCitizen

BadCitizen — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:46:50 +0000

I work for a county government, thus I have a different point of view. I think the problem with Ms. Boland (irrespective to Mr. Tobin�s rants) is that she has forgotten that above all else, she is a servant of the people of the country. This does not mean only �rich� constituants, it means everyone irrespective of money. It�s about time people around the world started holding the public servants to that principal. In the US, the government is supposed to be of the people, by the people, and for the people. This is not subject to interpretation, it is a blanket statement, it means that the people who make up our government should never forget that their power is given to them by the people of the country. Don�t forget, there are a lot more of us, than there are of you!

By: Mario Miller

Mario Miller — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:20:15 +0000

In particular, I put a fair amount of work (a few years back) into a piece of software that was (then) freely distributed and available. I fixed bugs and added capabilities. A bit later on, the software suddenly became proprietary and was sold for quite a bit of money. Of course, I was not offered any money for it (would not have expected that) but a note of thanks to the many developers such as myself (with their names) who had put time and energy into the project would have been appreciated. (The source code was even stripped of all change notes with identification.) While my contribution to the project was fairly small, I did contribute work to it and felt a bit like that work had been stolen. Certainly I resolved to never again contribute my energy to something like that again.

By: johnny

johnny — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 09:12:56 +0000

Steven
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