SJ’s Longest Now » OLPC book & music drive and XO hackathon
Olin College’s OLPC Chapter is having a University Chapter Jam in Boston. They’re compiling free books and CC-licensed, live and published, content for a DVD.
Good luck!
A great article outlining just a few of the concerns with Microsoft’s attempts to shovel manure down the standards process throat.
OOXML Questions Microsoft Cannot Answer in Geneva | Fanatic Attack
Microsoft taking the world with OOXML? We just don’t know.
Apple continues on their quest to break into the list of 5 worst companies.
One of the stupidest ideas ever to come out of Congress. Turn our nations universities into copyright enforcement agents. The sheer stupidity astounds me.
Techdirt: Court Slaps Down Software And Business Model Patents
“The routine addition of modern electronics to an otherwise unpatentable invention typically creates a prima facie case of obviousness.”
“It is thus clear that the present statute does not allow patents to be issued on particular business systems — such as a particular type of arbitration — that depend entirely on the use of mental processes.”
And now some sanity returning to the patent extortion industry. Wonderful step in the right direction.
