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Monthly Archives: November 2002
more stupid wireless tricks
Doug Isenberg, whose GigiLaw.com and its companion Guide are a great resource, sent along some more examples of awful wireless marketing…. Continue reading
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“Are you WIRED?” but stupid?
The lack of broadband access at hotels drives me nuts. It was bad enough when you had to carry a screw driver and alligator clips. But it’s been years since cheap and effective broadband technologies should have been deployed in major hotels. So it was a pleasant surprise when I received spam about this offer from W Hotels — offering “free” Broadband Internet Access plus telephone calls — for stupid people, apparently…. Continue reading
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embracing and extending the “ecosystem”
At a Tokyo conference on Intellectual Property Rights of Software and Open Source (hey, I didn’t pick the title), Msft General Counsel Brad Smith makes a strong and repeated defense of “neutrality” in the “software ecosystem.” I’m the other half of the presentation, but you can skip my part (especially because my hair is weird and I mumbled alot)…. Continue reading
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the value in derivative works
Aaron’s got a reformulation of my escrow-the-code argument which is cleaner, tighter, and more persuasive. We’ve asked to have him re-present my argument in Eldred, but apparently one must be over 15 to argue in the Supreme Court. (Oops, today’s his birthday. We’ll have to ask again…)… Continue reading
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please, no philosophy
Ted’s latest (and his patience with me is wearing, so perhaps sadly, his last), makes a passionate argument against my source code escrow idea, based on the nature of software and the creativity that builds it. I realize I must have somewhere inspired this debate about “nature.” I renounce it. No more talk about nature, or the philosophy of creativity. My argument is simple (maybe simplistic, maybe naive) pragmatism…. Continue reading
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GNU again
ESR has a wonderful analysis of the latest Halloween document from (some mole in) Msft. Eric rightly emphasizes substantial good news. Yet though this may be just my nature, I think there is more here to be worried about than the good news suggests. Bottom line: Regardless of our OSS/FSF loyalties, we need to work hard to de-FUDify GPL…. Continue reading
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