Matt Asay says every open source firm should hire a skilled, creative lawyer ASAP. I disagree; every open source firm should hire a skilled, creative lawyer, in late 2009. :)
Tim Lee and Derek Slater point out that there is a huge, vibrant infrastructure around handling your mp3s, and nothing comparable for DVDs, because of the [...]
Besides Constitutional Law and Criminal Law, I’m taking both Property (aka land, stuff- ‘real’ property) and Principles of Intellectual Property (mentioned earlier today.) I expected the IP class to refer to the property class, but maybe not to this extent.
My intellectual property class is being co-taught by a real property prof. He wrote the textbook… [...]
Sr. O’Grady has written a basically perfect post on the open source second life client, hitting the right notes about the client, about the code base, and about the server. Go read it.
(Completely personal ramble coming; skip it if you’re not interested in the internal monologue of an IP junkie 1L. I’m writing the post mostly to force myself to think through some options (including trying to understand better both my temptations and revulsions), not because I think it will actually be interesting to anyone.)
Sigh. Quote in [...]
OK, so… does anyone I know have a totalfark subscription? Apparently my blog got linked to from the front page, and I’m curious about the context, tagline, etc… (I assume it is related to this digg.)
I’ve written in the past about use of online pledge systems to fund bounty-style payoffs for developers, so I thought I’d note that the nouveau project appears to be doing something similar. So far over halfway to the pledge drive goal with a month remaining- which is very interesting. I have pledged (free drivers are [...]
Awesome post on the MS OOXML spec. And by ‘awesome’ I mean ‘nausea inducing.’
A list of patents filed by Alan Cox. (Note that many of these are just applications and not yet granted.) I’m particularly amused by the application for a patent on DRM. (Note that I can laugh because of Red Hat’s patent pledge.) Now I just need to find a site which will give me an [...]
There were some good comments on yesterday’s post; I was going to respond there but I figure they deserve more visibility than they’d get buried in my comments.
I should note that I should not have said ‘GNOME 3.0′ yesterday. GNOME 3.0 implies that we need a successor to GNOME 2.x; I don’t think that is [...]
I wrote last year:
I’m more and more convinced that we’re not going to get to 3.0 as an organization- we’re too afraid to fail (for reasonable reasons), we have too few resources, we are too enamored with planning,etc., etc.- I’m now fairly convinced that 3.0 is most likely to happen when someone goes out, experiments, [...]
