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Intellectual Monopolists on the Back Foot
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| This is extraordinary. It equates those who wish - legitimately - to minimise
| intellectual monopolies as the moral equivalents of counterfeiters. In other
| words, the intellectual monoplists seem to regard *any* threat to their
| fat-cat lifestyle as illegal, almost by definition.
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| The good news is that by identifying those against intellectual monopolies as
| this "second threat" on a par with counterfeiting is proof of just how
| successful we are becoming.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/01/intellectual-monopolists-on-back-foot.html
Tech to Obama: Think patent reform
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| Repealing software patents could give a much-needed boost to the tech
| industry in troubled economic times. Software patents affect all developers,
| commercial vendors, and open source hobbyists alike. Patents restrict what
| functionality we can include in our applications, how our programs can
| interoperate, and how and where they can be deployed. In turn, this affects
| every computer user, by limiting features, raising prices, and slowing the
| pace of progress.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/fatalexception/archives/2009/01/tech_to_obama_t.html
Recent:
Yes, We Can Make the Stimulus More Stimulating
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| 6) Funding for the Development of Open Software
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| In the same vein, the government can spend $2 billion a year to develop
| open source software. This money can be used to further develop and
| simplify open source operating systems such as Linux, as well other forms
| of free software. The payoffs from this spending would be enormous.
| Imagine that every computer buyer in the world would be able to get a
| computer for which the operating system was free, as was almost all the
| software that they would ever use.
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http://www.truthout.org/011209R
Economist suggests federal funding of Open Source
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| US ECONOMIST Dean Baker suggested on Monday that the federal government ought
| to fund Open Source software development as part of this year's economic
| stimulus package.
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| The subsidy was one of seven ideas he mentioned in an article published
| online at Truthout, including extending health insurance coverage, public
| funding for clinical drug trials, cash buyouts for older vehicles, subsidies
| for public transportation, federal funding for creative artisans and artists,
| and tax incentives for shorter working weeks and more holiday time off.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/398/1050398/economist-suggests-federal-funding-of-open-source
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