Innovation comes cheap, says Google engineer Kevin Marks
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| On Friday, amid a frenzy of chatter about open this and open that at FOWA,
| Marks took some time to chat with CNET News.com about OpenSocial on MySpace,
| that wacky Silicon Valley exuberance, and his view that a tough economy won't
| hurt innovation--because the cost of innovation has gone down.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9883792-36.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
[FSFE PR][EN] Google helps FSFE's Freedom Task Force to deliver training,
attend conferences and translate documents.
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| Google has made a donation to assist FSFE's Freedom Task Force with
| delivering training courses, attending conferences and localising
| documents.
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http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2008q1/000201.html
Days ago:
FSFE calls on Microsoft to release interoperability information without
restrictions
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| Microsoft is the last company that actively promotes the use of software
| patents to restrict interoperability. This kind of behaviour has no place in
| an Internet society where all components should connect seamlessly regardless
| of their origin," says Georg Greve, president of the Free Software Foundation
| Europe.
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http://fsfeurope.org/news/2008/news-20080228-01.en.html
Related:
Yahoo Patent Troll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvFUSHwRXJE
Who is the world's biggest patent troll?
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| In two consecutive days, The Wall Street Journal presented two different
| answers. The first is not surprising: Intellectual Ventures, the brainchild
| of ex-Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold. It's now out "to raise as much as
| $1 billion to help develop and patent inventions, many of them from
| universities in Asia."
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9816163-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Playing Microsoft Patent Poker
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| This time though, while Ballmer slinks away to try to con … convince people
| that Microsoft Unified Communications somehow offers people more than what
| Cisco's VOIP (voice over IP) been offering customers for years, a patent
| attack finally launches at Linux. Specifically, IP Innovation, a subsidiary
| of Acacia Technologies Group, has filed a patent infringement claim against
| Linux distributors Novell and Red Hat.
|
| So was it just timing, or was it something more? Let's take a look at the
| players.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2201579,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
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