Tag: copyright

Software found a way around Oracle’s attempt to close open source. But it was a close-run thing.

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

Newspapers will keep putting up paywalls, cutting their audiences 90% and making themselves worthless as ad vehicles. All we can ...

Open source is people, my friend.

Copyright is both a finished good and a raw material. Its value lies in the fact that it's both, and ...

Stallman's retention of copyright (and control) over his own written work somehow contradicts his attitude toward software. Uh, no.

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

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

If Oracle's argument is accepted, connections between programs become illegal, large companies are the only firms allowed to enter innovative ...

You want a piece of me? You want a piece of The Goog? Well here I am, come and get ...