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Software, patents and innovation

by Mathew on April 18, 2006 · Comments

My friend Mike McDerment of SecondSite has a post up with some of his thoughts about patents, and it reminded me that I’ve been meaning to write one as well, but I’ve kind of been putting it off because it’s a complicated subject and I wanted to think about it a bit. Like Mike, I’ve [...]

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Is DRM evil — and does that make Google evil?

by Mathew on January 6, 2006 · Comments

Do regular users care about DRM — digital rights management — or is it just open-source fans, libertarians and other geeks? It will be interesting to see what kind of reaction Google gets to the super-duper, Google-rific DRM built into the search company’s new video store.
As more than one person has pointed out, the [...]

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