Jan 08 2010
Stamattina ho trovato nella mia casella di posta un messaggio da una persona che cerca informazioni riguardo la brevettabilità delle idee. La domanda in particolare mi ha colpito, come sempre:
se ho ben capito le idee non sono brevettabili e quindi [...] chiunque può rivedere la mia idea e ricopiarla con un altro marchio?
Mi colpisce sempre [...]
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Sep 28 2009
I’ve been listening to the conversations about Mono since this summer. I was waiting for the dust to settle before I started re-reading the various comments but the dust is not settling and the protagonists of the summer name-calling-fest are still busy pointing fingers at Richard Stallman for stating his opinion.
Stallman’s position is pretty clear [...]
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Jan 16 2009
It looks like the US patent system, that the free software movement has been fighting for the past 25 years, is dying.
First academia started questioning its usefulness (back in 1958), then the conservative cultural circles at WSJ.’ In the recent Blisky case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit put the software patents [...]
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Nov 22 2008
Instead of innovating the mobile business, OpenMoko is now forced to divert energy on a battle against an Italian patent troll. From a message to the OpenMoko mailing lists:
The short story is that we are in a protracted battle with some patent trolls. Google for Sisvel. In order to get ourselves in a stronger position, [...]
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Nov 13 2008
I had the feeling that 2008 was an important year for FSF. We’ve seen new campaigns take off, like End Software Patents and Support Open Document Format; the established campaigns Defective By Design, Play OGG, Expert Witness Fund have received good responses (if Google page rank is an indicator).’ We’ve seen also the first FSF [...]
Oct 21 2008
The last lesson of the MBA was about patents, how to use them strategically for your business. The professor was really good at explaining all the steps that you must follow before you start any innovation process and what traps expect you at each step you make.’ Funny enough, all his lesson confirmed me that [...]
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Oct 16 2008
Big boost to the PlayOGG campaign coming from Firefox:
This is the first beta from Mozilla to include support for <video> and the <audio> elements. This beta includes support for the OGG Theora and OGG Vorbis formats on all platforms.
It’s going to be easier to use this format if millions of users will be able [...]
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