endlich himmelblau by extranoise, used under CC-BY license
So Red Hat is going to sell hosted servers in EC2. (see also) With my recent focus, this prompts an obvious question.
Given that EC2 is basically hosted Xen (a defacto open standard), so that you can apparently fairly trivially move a VM from your machine to EC2 to [...]
‘Trapped Clouds’ by Chris Kovacs, used under a CC-BY license
A wise and wonderful friend emailed me to say that he was glad my posts last night did not say ‘web 2.0′, as in his wise opinion ‘web 2.0′ is a pile of hooey. On this we are in deep agreement; there is no deep substance [...]
I’m spending today at a conference on user-generated content at New York Law School. Some notes from throughout the day. As usual, these come with the disclaimer that these are not direct quotes (unless I indicate them to be with quotes); as such you should not cite them as the words of the speaker, but [...]
As I mentioned when I wrote about DRM some moons ago, it is pretty much impossible for DRM systems to actually permit fair use.1 The same problem happens to those who would scan the web for copyright violations- is the use of a piece of music an indefensible copyright violation, or is it protected as [...]
Because people asked…
Q: will you be doing a Q&A on the Red Hat and Novell patents suits?
A: Are you crazy? :) I’ve worked for both companies and managed a team that may well have written or implemented the code at issue. I’m not touching that in public with a ten foot pole. :)
Q: but! but!
A: [...]
Some comments on joe’s post on Microsoft’s patents:
they’re unlikely to come after Linux distributors for the well-known “mutually assured destruction” reasons
Which is why they are going after Linux users, most of whom have no patents of their own to retaliate with. Besides the original Fortune article, check out this latest Ballmer quote, where he carefully [...]
I’ll be there. Drop me a note if you’ll be there and would like to meet up.
Radiohead is experimenting with allowing you to pay whatever you want for the new Radiohead album, apparently on the theory that you’ll download it anyway, of which they get zero, or buy a CD from a label, of which they get very little.
My friend Iain waiting patiently for a Radiohead concert a long time ago [...]
Mark Radcliffe, of DLA Piper (I interview there on Monday, by coincidence) has a ‘view from a real lawyer’ on the case.
Mark seems to suggest that the answer to my question of ‘why now’ may be that this is a reaction to the Jacobsen case. While a number of open source lawyers believed that Jacobsen [...]
Following up on the last post after some quick discussions with friends:
At this point, this is still merely a complaint- nothing has gone to trial, nor will it for some time. In fact, most cases which reach this stage still never go to trial- they settle before getting that far. Still, this case is notable [...]
