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Phenomenal Essay On Why Software Patents Are The Problem
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| If there is one thing you read today, go
| read Brad Burnham at Union Square Ventures
| excellent essay titled Software patents
| are the problem not the answer.
|
| Several years ago when I first started
| saying things like âsoftware patents are
| invalid constructsâ or âsoftware shouldnât
| be able to be patentedâ or âsoftware
| patents are a huge drag on innovationâ, I
| was told by many people (lawyers,
| journalists, patent trolls, and other VCs)
| that while I might be right, no other
| venture capitalist would agree with me or
| support this position.
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http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/post.aspx?bid=358&bpid=24835
Tenenbaum: $675,000 is absurd when I caused $21 in losses
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| Joel Tenenbaum, the second P2P defendant
| to take his case all the way through
| trial, is on the hook for $675,000 in
| damages. But according to his lawyer,
| Tenenbaum only caused the record labels
| $21 in damages.
|
| The disparity between these two figures
| is, in the words of Harvard Law's Charles
| Nesson, "monstrous and shocking."
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/02/tenenbaum-675000-is-absurd-when-i-caused-21-in-losses.ars
Herald ends payments for online content
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| In December 2009, the media company began
| providing a link for voluntary payment at
| the end of each online story. ``After
| evaluating two months of response, we've
| decided to end the program,'' said Elissa
| Vanaver, a company vice president and
| assistant to the publisher. She would not
| say how much money the effort had raised.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/02/20/1490558/herald-ends-payments-for-online.html
Author Who Claimed $9.99 Not A Real Price For Books Admits Comments Were A Mistake
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| Of course, it looks like the backlash got
| even stronger following that quote in the
| NY Times. Robert Ring alerts us to io9's
| coverage, saying that after the NYT's
| piece came out, Preston's book started
| getting one-star reviews on Amazon, with
| many people mentioning the NY Times quote
| as a reason not to buy the book.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100218/0404338226.shtml
Recent:
Microsoft, Nokia, Amazon, others sued over hardware acceleration
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| A company called Nazomi Communications has
| sued a number of large companies for
| breaching patents it owns on hardware
| acceleration.
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http://www.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-features/45023-microsoft-nokia-amazon-others-sued-over-hardware-acceleration
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