Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Patently Obvious
I saw today that Microsoft has issued a dossier of cases where open source has violated its patents and intellectual property rights.
And this will be an increasing trend across industries as mass collaboration platforms and movements create a realistic alternative to proprietary code.
And research is unlikely to escape this. Indeed since research is by its nature exploratory, creative, art, some science and subjective the phenomenon could impact us all greatly.
umm....
And this will be an increasing trend across industries as mass collaboration platforms and movements create a realistic alternative to proprietary code.
And research is unlikely to escape this. Indeed since research is by its nature exploratory, creative, art, some science and subjective the phenomenon could impact us all greatly.
umm....
