Copyright and Patent Exclusivity Restrictions in Software

Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:21 AM EDT

Note:Patent and copyright exclusivity restrictions are often misleadingly called "intellectual property," although, as a non-commodity good, referring to restricted works as property is confusing at best.

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technology, patents, copyrights

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Linux sucks, Apple sucks, and Popularity Isn't Everything
Sun Jul 23, 2006
- hehe... your page renders weirdly in firefox :P Reducing text size fixes it up.
Cartoon Network Develops Online Game
Wed Jul 19, 2006
- Holy innovation, Batman! An online game! I wonder why no one has ever done this before! Those CN guys are ingenious!
Reporter Sues YouTube Over Copyrights
Tue Jul 18, 2006
- @ the "walking all over people's work." That implies that works authors somehow have an intrinsic right to control what people do with their works. Thing is, they don't. We can argue the philosophical points until the cows come home, so lets stick with the legal points and the constitutional points.
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Wed Jul 19, 2006
- Whatever happened to free speech? Oh, that's right, think of the chickens.
Reporter Sues YouTube Over Copyrights
Tue Jul 18, 2006
- This is yet another example of how our copyright exclusivity restriction system is broken. It was designed to foster distribution, but now it is smothering it.
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Wed Jul 19, 2006
- In the caption, the second instance of "scent of a woman" is spelled "sent of a woman." Um... isn't this the AP?!?
Symantec: Windows Vista Will be Less Secure than XP
Tue Jul 18, 2006
- At your urging, I just did one now. Some interesting results. For starters, a search for 'linux security' yields 467 million results. This is vs. 890 million for 'windows security' and 367 million for 'mac security'. (apple security and macintosh security yielded far fewer results)
Why Should You Worry About A Malicious Code?
Wed Jul 19, 2006
- Oh, and I forgot the Sony Rootkit thing. Keep in mind that the examples I listed are only the ones we know about, and usually we only know about them because of a random bit of good luck. My policy is, I don't trust anything I can't compile myself.
Why Should You Worry About A Malicious Code?
Wed Jul 19, 2006
- "1. Use only commercial software from established vendors" You're kidding, right? Ever heard of WGA? Real Player? Dell? Never forget: Spyware/Adware/Malware is a a commercial venture.

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