IP ant and IP grasshopper
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| Politicians jump to praise IP and courts endorse it because, they
| think, it's the only way to reward invention and keep innovation going.
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| The idea that the world would pay Verizon an IP tax on common
| Internet standards is absurd. It's just another way to keep the
| U.S. phone network marching backward, and assure that the
| Internet's future is made in Asia.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=949
Where will innovation come from?
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| O'Rourke turns to Worldmapper, a tool created by geographers at
| the University of Sheffield (UK). Basically, it shows maps of
| the world - national boundaries intact - that show nations as
| fat or skinny based on how they stack up in terms of population,
| R&D expenditures, or whatever data you plug into them.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/02/where_will_inno.html
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