These are the last odds and ends of my GPL Q&A series. I may or may not find the energy to elaborate on the patent and DRM provisions tomorrow, since those seem to have generated the most questions, but I may not- I’m completely destroyed right now, and I plan on going to a baseball [...]
(Before going further, you should (at the minimum) read the disclaimer on Monday’s post and (ideally) make sure you’ve read all of the past two posts. (first, second.))
Q: Companies hate this! The sky is falling if the GPL is adopted!
A: Find your calm place. There is no doubt that the new license will create new [...]
(This is part two of a series. Before going further, you should (at the minimum) read the disclaimer on yesterday’s post and (ideally) make sure you’ve read all of yesterday’s post.)
Q: Has there ever been a sequel that wasn’t terrible?
A: Godfather II and Star Wars II. (I refuse to call it V.) I’m no Coppola, [...]
Q: So why are we here?
A: At the end of this week, after 16 years, the Free Software Foundation should bless version three of the GNU General Public License, the sequel to what is arguably the most widely used and most impactful copyright license ever.1 Quite literally everyone who makes software - open, proprietary, or [...]
Matt, all of the following are probably true. I graduate:
(a) two years from last month.
(b) way too late, because so many interesting companies are doing so many interesting things right now.
(c) way too soon, because answering the Big Questions is probably going to need the kind of deep thinking that tends to be enabled by [...]
On the advice of someone from counseling services here, I’ve been studying for 20 minutes on, 10 minutes off. This has greatly reduced my study anxiety, since if I get distracted, I just write it down and say ‘will do it at the next break.’ And then I get back to being focused. This has [...]
For class today we had to listen to this recording of Moglen and Lessig at Wikimania last summer. Sigh. My IP class has generally been good, but man… I would love to take a class which consisted of ‘understand everything touched on in that lecture.’ You could squeeze in deep philosophy of copyright; the relationships [...]
Some DRM analogies that popped out of my poor brain a while back and never got properly elaborated. These are still mostly in the ‘thinking out loud’ stage, so thoughts/comments/constructive criticisms appreciated, and don’t take them too seriously.
Model T:’any color you want as long as it is black’::ipod:FairPlay
Hypothesis: this works fine now, but people will [...]
[Old post that I meant to elaborate on, but never did; seems worth pushing out now; maybe I'll write more about it later if anyone finds it interesting :)
On the day before Christmas, I read a paper on 'spillover' by Brett Frischman and Mark Lemley. In a nutshell, the paper is an attempt to think [...]
I haven’t had a chance to read the whole thing yet, but those who were interested in my past post on intrinsic motivation might be interested in this study on the psychology of money, from Science late last year. Apparently even the mere mention of money can make people less helpful- “Reminders of money, relative [...]
