William Patry, one of the most respected online commentators on
copyright, has
shut down his weblog.
It so happens that copyright is a major subject covered in a book
recently released by O'Reilly, Van Lindberg's
Intellectual Property and Open Source A Practical Guide to Protecting Code.
This blog continues with a brief statement by Van about Patry's
decision, then a brief statement of my own, and finally an excerpt from
Van's book about how copyright got to the state it's in, an excerpt I
hope you'll enjoy and learn from.
Results tagged “free software” from O'Reilly News
When Steve Jobs implied he wants Safari to take over as the world's dominant browser, I thought he meant on the desktop. I was wrong; it took an iPhone app to make me realize free software needs to move into new ecosystems to help users take control of their computing and their data.
Microsoft's Sam Ramji promised to answer the tough questions about his company's open source efforts. Here's the big one: will Microsoft fix its open source patent license?
The computer industry is certainly not recession-proof, but the Open Source convention that's just wrapping up had more attendees than last year (we were up to
about 2000), and discussions about starting businesses based on open source seemed to take place everywhere. And I don't mean just free software: open source concepts apply to hardware, creative content, and other materials. Big topics included virtualization and the next stage of virtualization: cloud computing. Perhaps those are the practitioner's solution to multicores.
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