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Universal kernel code to keep computers safe
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| To prove mathematically that the 7500 lines of its kernel's
| code were secure, Gerwin Klein of NICTA and his team first
| had to come up with a mathematical method to express the
| code. "In the end, programs are just mathematics, and you
| can reason about them mathematically," says Klein.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327236.400-universal-kernel-code-to-keep-computers-safe.html
Richard Stallman on Software Patents
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| In this insightful discussion, international Free Software
| advocate Richard Stallman (RMS) will argue that software
| patents seriously and significantly obstruct software
| development.
|
| Software patents are patents that cover software ideas.
| Stallman will argue that they restrict the development of
| software to the point that the risk of legal action as a
| result of design decisions is dramatically raised. Stallman
| will also make the point that patents in other fields
| restrict factories, but in IT, software patents restrict
| every computer user and consumer.
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http://www.nzcs.org.nz/events/waikato_bop/70-Richard_Stallman_on_Software_Patents
Troll Tracker Defamation Trial Ends in Truce
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202433996591&Troll_Tracker_Defamation_Trial_Ends_in_Truce
President Obama's Strategy for American Innovation
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| President Obama's speech today focused on its newly formed
| "strategy for American innovation" -- his "strategy to
| foster new jobs, new businesses, and new industries by
| laying the groundwork and the ground rules to best tap our
| innovative potential. . . .
|
| [...]
|
| Protect intellectual property rights. Intellectual property
| is to the digital age what physical goods were to the
| industrial age. We must ensure that intellectual property
| is protected in foreign markets and promote greater
| cooperation on international standards that allow our
| technologies to compete everywhere. The Administration is
| committed to ensuring that the United States Patent and
| Trademark Office has the resources, authority, and
| flexibility to administer the patent system effectively and
| issue high-quality patents on innovative intellectual
| property, while rejecting claims that do not merit patent
| protection.
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http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2009/09/president-obamas-strategy-for-american-innovation.html
Recent:
Freedom Is For People
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| All of these metaphors or frameworks turn the conversation from individual
| freedom to supra-human systems. This inevitably privileges those systems over
| the individual and when decisions must be made to protect the system
| individual freedom will suffer as a result.
|
| This can be seen happening in real-world projects. Too many people are
| confusing the idea of gifts as random acts of kindness, or of the "needs" of
| corporations, with the subject of freedom. That subject must always be human
| individuals.
|
| The products of freedom can be regarded as forming commons, and gift
| economies, and reputation economies. But privileging these secondary
| phenomena over the thing that creates them will stifle freedom.
|
| The subject of freedom must be actual people, not abstract economic models
| that can lead to the freedom of actual people being compromised.
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http://robmyers.org/weblog/2008/11/05/freedom-is-for-people/
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