patents

America's corporate state and China's Communist state are now in sync regarding the idea of slowing progress through intellectual property...

It's going to take some public pressure to get non-exclusive licensing, essentially an industry standard like WiFi rather than a...

“Had you rather Jobs were living and die all slaves, than that Jobs were dead, to live all free men?”...

The nature of software is there are always multiple ways to do something. So software patents are, at the end...

These are tough times to be for open source. But sometimes the news brings up a green shoot

In theory a mobile Internet client should be no different than a desktop Linux. But every aspect of the design...

The rule should be simple. You can patent a mousetrap, but not the idea of catching mice. You must be...

This illustrates how different solar technology is from computing. We don't know what tomorrow's solar cells will look like, how...

In many industries you don't just have a long tail of buyers, you have one of sellers, and by going...

Android market share peaked in March, and it's now headed down. The Apple iPad has something to do with it....