An ‘IP’ business versus an engineering professor (yet again)
Direct link: Software Patent Debate
Notice how the panel is stacked. The latter guy speaks about “bad” patents and does not oppose software patents as a whole. So neither side (of the two) is against software patents, certainly not the moderator (who is in the ‘law’ sector). Where are the programmers?
Summary: A recent talk about what European carriers are doing, not just American ones
Summary: Early proof that Microsoft’s vapourware is embarrassingly bad
Summary: The latest talk from Linux founder Linus Torvalds (apart from the now-famous NVIDIA remark)
Summary: Explaining the obvious difference between copying and stealing (either when applied to data, methods, or ideas)
Credit: Yes, this is ThistleWeb from TechBytes.
New from Prof. Lessig: Institutional Corruption
This applies to patent law as well.
Summary: The final part of “Everything is a Remix”
Everything is a Remix Part 4 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.
As one pro-Apple site puts it (yes, pro-Apple, ironically):
In case you haven’t seen it yet, the fourth episode of Kirby Ferguson’s “Everything is a Remix” series went live in mid-February on Ferguson’s site. As in the previous three episodes in the series, Ferguson examines modern attitudes toward “intellectual property” and how these attitudes rather counterintuitively stifle creativity rather than fostering it.
Part 4 of “Everything is a Remix” deals largely with the contentious subject of software patents, a subject we’ve covered many times here at TUAW. According to Ferguson, 62 percent of all patent lawsuits are now over software patents, and he estimates the total wealth “lost” (read: siphoned off from “infringing” companies and individuals towards patent holders and their lawyers) at half a trillion dollars.
“We’ve always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”
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