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Elinor Ostrom and the Future of Economics
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| But Ostrom is a radical â and awesome â choice.
| Not just because of the "what" of her work, but,
| more deeply, because of the "how" of it.
| Ostrom's work is concerned, fundamentally, with
| challenging Garret Hardin's famous Tragedy of
| the Commons, itself a living expression of
| neoclassical thinking. Ostrom suggests that far
| from a tragedy, the commons can be managed from
| the bottom-up for a shared prosperity â given
| the right institutions. That conclusion
| challenges orthodox economics from both left and
| right leaning perspectives; it suggests that,
| yes, markets can organize production and
| consumption efficiently â but only when
| supported and nurtured by networks and
| communities.
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http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/10/what_you_can_learn_from_elinor.html
INNOVA~1:
3Com patents bite back
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| Some big names in the computer industry were
| sued this week by a company claiming that they
| have infringed on Ethernet-related patents
| developed by 3Com.
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| The company is called U.S. Ethernet Innovations,
| which owns the patents spun off from 3Com for
| the sole purpose of launching these sorts of
| lawsuits. Named in the suit are Acer, Apple,
| Asus, Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, HP, Sony, and
| Toshiba.
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http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/lans/2009/101209lan1.html?fsrc=netflash-rss
Can't Innovate? Litigate! 3Com Goes Patent Lawsuit Ballistic
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091013/1901346515.shtml
CSIRO's Wi-Fi patent victory earns $200m and counting
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| A patent battle between Australia's CSIRO and 14
| of the world's largest technology companies has
| today been revealed to have already gained the
| research organisation $200 million from out of
| court settlements.
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http://www.itnews.com.au/News/158194,csiros-wi-fi-patent-victory-earns-200m-and-counting.aspx
Recent:
FSF files brief in Bilski case calling on the Supreme Court to eliminate software patents
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| The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today submitted an amicus
| curiae brief calling on the Supreme Court to affirm that software
| ideas are not patentable. After outlining the positive impact that
| the free software movement and the GNU General Public License (GNU
| GPL) have had on computer use, the brief explains how software
| patents are an obstacle and a danger to software developers.
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http://www.fsf.org/news/bilski-supreme-court-brief
SFLC files Bilski brief: Software should not be patentable and don't forget the 1st Amendment
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| The Software Freedom Law Center has now filed its brief in Bilski.
| You can read it online here, as well as download it as a PDF or as
| Postscript. It raises three major points: 1) software is just
| algorithms for computers in human readable terms, and algorithms
| are not patentable; 2) excluding software from patentable subject
| matter encourages innovation in software; and 3) the First
| Amendment prohibits permitting the patenting of abstract ideas. I
| think you'll find that last point the most interesting.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091002213301495
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