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The Ivy Occasional
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Screen Size? (Dec 11 2003 08:33 GMT) - Hey you! Yeah, the person reading this. Drop me a comment telling me what resolution you have your monitor set... |
Blogator.com
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Microsoft gets Windows XP update ready (Dec 11 2003 08:32 GMT) - [CNET News.com - Front Door] - The software maker is set to release a test version of an update to Windows XP, which adds security features and improved support for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi networks. |
Techdirt
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Intellectual Property Laws Harming, Not Helping, Innovation (Dec 11 2003 08:31 GMT) - It looks like more and more people are starting to catch on to the fact that all of these battles over intellectual property have nothing to do with "free stuff" or "stealing" but about trying to reform a system that is holding back innovation - despite the fact that it's very charter is to promote innovation. Current intellectual property law is being abused to create artificial monopolies. Instead of promoting innovation, it's being used to protect business models and block out market competition. That's not healthy. While those trying to abuse the obsolete system always seem to claim they're trying to help the everyday worker keep his or her job, the evidence suggests otherwise. |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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Banning software patents: a call to action (Dec 11 2003 08:30 GMT) - For the past nine months, much of the attention of the IT world has been drawn to the SCO v. IBM case. Having started out as a case about breach of contract, it is now about all three key areas of intellectual property law: copyright law (was code illegally copied from Unix into Linux?), patent law (did SCO violate IBM's patents? |
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