FOSS licenses upheld!
After a five-year struggle in US Federal District Court, Robert Jacobson recently prevailed in his copyright infringement claim against Matthew Katzer as a result of Katzer’s alleged misappropriation of open source code from Jacobson’s Java Model Railroad Interface project. You can read all of the story in more detail at ConsortiumInfo.org. The end result is a [...]
GPL, WordPress and Themes
I saw an intriguing post the other day by Jennifer Schiffer on WordPress, themes and the GPL. She linked to a video of Matt Mullenweg (one of WordPress’ lead developers) who was talking about why WordPress was a GPL product (short answer: they didn’t really have a choice because WP is based on b2, which [...]
This Week on The Web 2009-10-11
These are the discussions that happened around the web this week – maybe you already read about them, maybe you need to again. Come join the party on twitter (follow me here and you’ll participate in the conversation live.) I also realized that many of you might have no idea what you’re seeing below. Sorry. [...]
This Week on The Web 2009-09-13 (my birthday edition)
It happens to be my birthday weekend and between eating some great food, playing Guitar Hero with my wife and hanging with the family, these are the things that happened around the web this week – maybe you already read about them, maybe you need to again – there were some REALLY great discussions going [...]
This Week on The Web 2009-08-30
The things that happened around the web this week – maybe you already read about them, maybe you need to again. I also realized that many of you might have no idea what you’re seeing below. Sorry. These are “tweets”, 140 maximum character messages sent via Twitter. Within the Twitterverse individual users follow others and [...]
Four Disadvantages to Using SaaS for Your Small Business
This is a blog response to DreamSimplicity’s “4 Advantages to Using SaaS for Your Small Business“. DS is correct, SaaS offers several great advantages that small businesses can exploit – such as obtaining access to enterprise-class software once priced outside non-enterprise reach. But all is not rosy and wonderful in the SaaS world. It pays [...]
This Week on the Web 2009-08-02
Skype licensing issue might force eBay to recode from scratch. http://bit.ly/10Tk7u Businesses cough up £6m for unlicensed software: http://bit.ly/4gaFyU RT @hitchandplow: Men At Work Loses First Stage Of Copyright Lawsuit http://bit.ly/12zSnJ < You betta’ watch, you betta’ take cover. RT @vpynchon: even better; Shatner doing Rocket Man in 1978 http://twurl.nl/s4dmlb New blog post: Lease by [...]
This Week on The Web for 2009-07-26
RT @vpynchon: RT @priorsmart: “Self-plagiarizing law prof snagged” http://u.nu/3xxk [from ipbiz] < I don’t think this is too bad. # RT @SAManage 5 Tips for Eliminating Hidden Software Costs http://tinyurl.com/l2apqz # . @ontechcontracts – How long for disclosure in NDAs? http://bit.ly/l2Dzz # RT @SAManage: IT Inventory Management http://tinyurl.com/kmbt3p # RIAA Says DRM is dead (via [...]
Amazon’s Orwellian Behavior
As many are reporting, Amazon.com “recalled” an e-book remotely in response to a request by a publisher. This is all kinds of scary and most folks are centered on the purely tangible nature of the problem. I’m also concerned about the precent it sets, but I’m more concerned about the sapping of intellectual property rights [...]
Web TOS Amendments
Eric Goldman on “Amending this Agreement whenever we want” (the Harris v. Blockbuster case from earlier this year). Dead on, as usual, so I’ll repeat his mantra here: “STOP PUTTING CLAUSES INTO YOUR CONTRACTS THAT SAY YOU CAN AMEND THE CONTRACT AT ANY TIME IN YOUR SOLE DISCRETION BY POSTING THE REIVSED TERMS TO THE [...]
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