- Transforming ITIL to Agile
- Visualization Coolness
- Change Detection
- Green IT Machine
- Continuous Training
- Community and Cooperation are the Keys to Success!
- Ignoring the source code is akin to an ostrich sticking its head in the sand
- Remember when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?
- My downloads is bigger than yours!
- It's all about working together
May 24, 2007 | Comments: (0)
M/S Patent Redux
Mark Shuttleworth has the best take on the M/S patent situation. The real issue is patents themselves. They are bad for software innovation. The biggest challenge and the biggest benefit will be in innovating, not in protecting abstract assets. The trick is to occupy the vast headroom created by the explosion of innovation. For each abstract nexus you might want to protect, innovation moves right around it and expands outward. While you spend money and cycles protecting, everyone else is somewhere else so the sue strategy fails. It's time to get over patents, hook into the rocket boom in progress, and ride innovation for all it's worth, which so far is more than we can imagine...
Here's an example of a web site that is free making more money than competitors that are not free, so says Lee Gomes of the Wall Street Journal.
Posted by Harper Mann on May 24, 2007 08:35 AM
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