Criticism of the patent system is increasing and abolishment too is being considered for what became a hindrance - not a facilitator - to science
Read more »Tim Bray Asks Patent Lawyers to Find Something Better to Do After “Actively Damaging Society”
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Recession's latest victim: U.S. innovation
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U.S. innovation slowed this year for the first time in 13 years as the recession cut into budgets, and costs to protect inventions rose. The system is broken.. Pushing patents through the system is easier said than done: The decline in filings this year has brought to light a number of problems with the antiquated American patent system.
Read more »We Don’t Really Want Innovation
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Innovation is one of those things we pretend to want and then complain when it happens. When the KDE team decided to innovate with plasma, all they got were heaps and heaps of criticism thrown at them. Now it appears that Gnome 3.0 is going to suffer the same fate.
Read more »France begins IT research centre on innovation and free software
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France's national computer science institute, Inria, says free software is essential to develop digital society. The institute is launching a research centre to focus on this type of software.
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IBM opens a Linux innovation center in Kazakhstan
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IBM keeps pushing into emerging markets in an effort to encourage startups and technology adoption around the world. Today, it is announcing it has opened a Linux innovation center in Kazakhstan.
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It’s Official: Patents Stifle Innovation
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Scientific study supports what everyone already knows - that intellectual monopolies reduce pace of progress
Read more »Xorg's X Window innovation - it's not ALL about the graphics (but there's quite a lot of it)
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In my last article about Xorg, I touched upon several points that have been in a state of continual flux in Xorg. Here's a follow-up on that article, as it seems to have generated quite a lot of interest. However, I didn't expand much on some features and their implications, so I will do so here.
Read more »We Put the "No" In Innovation!
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A general rule of marketing is "The more noise they make, the less they have to crow about." Who makes the most noise about "innovation"? I bet you can guess....
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Take that to the Open Source bank
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Think open source and you might think many things, but I doubt very much that banking will be towards the top of the list or even on the radar for that matter.
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Economists Say Copyright and Patent Laws Are Killing Innovation; Hurting Economy
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Patent and copyright law are stifling innovation and threatening the global economy according to two economists at Washington University in St. Louis in a new book, Against Intellectual Monopoly.
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Ubuntu 'stagnation' is really innovation
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Keir Thomas believes that Ubuntu and Mozilla Firefox have forgotten their core values in the rush to popularity. I can't agree.
Read more »Why Freedom Matters
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«...That statement packages several questionable assumptions:
1. That the only motive for developing free software is ideological.
2. That innovation in software requires a lot of funding.
3. That the only way to fund software research is through proprietary software.
4. That innovation is more important than freedom.
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Leading organizations unite to create a new IT event: the Open World Forum
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The Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) movement is revolutionizing the IT industry.
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The power of Collaborative Innovation
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With 1.4 billion people connected, the Internet is the greatest collaborative network that mankind has experienced. One of the consequences of the growth of this network is a shift in the way knowledge is being created and distributed.
Read more »Using Open-Source Innovation Networks to Drive Collaborative Software Development
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Collaboration on software development is essential, but
how do you include your partners, customers and even
competitors as part of an extended team? The Eclipse
Foundation's Ian Skerrett shares tips on using open source
software to establish an innovative network for IT.
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