Today’s lecture: “Markets, Firms and Peer Production”
Today’s session is one of my favorites of the Open Source and Intellectual Property in the Digital Society course I am teaching at TU Berlin. From the summary: “Markets, Firms and Peer...
View ArticleHere is to a book that did not exist a week ago –“How to understand an oil...
This week, the Open Oil project performed a marvelous stunt – the Oil Contracts Booksprint. Johnny West, Zara Rahman and their supporters gathered oil contract experts from across the globe at Schloss...
View ArticleDefensive Publications at Embedded World 2013
Embedded World has started today in Nürnberg, Germany. I am here with Open Invention Network to spread the idea of defensive publications and OIN’s non-aggression community of companies in the Open...
View ArticlePetition: Hollyweb, W3C und Lobbyisten für “Digital Rights Management” im...
[Ursprünglich auf netzpolitik.org] Der fast fertige HTML5-Standard für Webseiten soll technische Möglichkeiten zur Inhalte-Kontrolle erhalten. Mit dem gefährlichen “Digital Rights Management” (DRM) ist...
View ArticleQt Project and Defensive Publications
Open Source communities are amazingly innovative. Linux Defenders encourages them to document their ideas in the form of defensive publications, so that this body of knowledge becomes relevant prior...
View ArticleKDE e.V. General Assembly 2013
tl;dr: If you are a committed KDE contributor and not a KDE e.V. member, you are doing it wrong. If you are a KDE user, consider helping the KDE User Working Group. Read KDE e.V.’s quarterly reports....
View ArticleDefensive Publications: Shedding Light on Innovation
The patent system is broken. The point of patents is to encourage innovation and inventiveness. Instead of promoting innovation, patent offices have awarded overly broad, vague, and unoriginal patents...
View ArticleKDE Akademy 2014 – Welcome, new KDE board!
Akademy 2014 is still in full swing in Brno in the Czech Republic with the traditional hack week that started on Monday. At about 200 participants it was well attended and organized. This years...
View ArticleHyundai Kia Motors joins the Open Invention Network as the first global...
Today Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors Corporation are joining the Open Invention Network as community members. Linux and Open Source software are becoming a mainstay in automotive computing. With...
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