September 14, 2010
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It’s no mystery that I generally don’t like Microsoft or its products. On the other hand, when Microsoft does something right, I’ll say that too. By issuing a free, blanket software license to nonprofit and journalist groups in Russia and … Continue reading
September 12, 2010
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If you stand against Russia’s de facto dictatorship you have another enemy besides Prime Minister Vladimir Putin: Microsoft. According to a New York Times report, the Russian government is using a new tactic “for quelling dissent: confiscating computers under the … Continue reading
August 30, 2010
by sjvn01
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For years, decades, the big companies didn’t tend to wage patent wars on each other. The reason is simple. Major patent holders don’t tend to target other major patent holders because of MAD (mutually assured destruction). Or, in other words, … Continue reading
August 27, 2010
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You may think that the last thing on earth that could happen to your company would be that your business might be sued because it used a particular software program. You’d be wrong. In the aftermath of the Bilski Supreme … Continue reading
August 27, 2010
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n the computer technology business, we tend to see patents as being bad for developers and business. What we don’t realize that the problems we have with Microsoft’s bogus patent claims against Linux and Oracle’s patent-based attack against Google are … Continue reading
August 24, 2010
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When Oracle sued Google over its use, or as Oracle would have it, Google’s misuse of Java intellectual property in Android, the first questions were why and what did Oracle hope to gain? My only pet theory is straightforward and … Continue reading