October 2007 Archives

Jonathan Schwartz's latest blog talks about his IP troubles with NetApp. In it, he states :

Third, we file patents defensively. Like MySQL or Red Hat, companies similarly competing in the free software marketplace, we file patents to protect the communities from which innovation and opportunity spring.

Mr. Schwartz - if you really believe this, could you please direct Rich Green to give the Apache Harmony project a license for the Java SE TCK. Right now, your IP is being used as a weapon against that community, from which innovation and opportunity spring (I won't bother listing all the Apache software your company uses in it's products...)

(BTW, Evil Geir thinks giving the proceeds of your NetApp lawsuit to the SFLC and ilk is a brilliant move..)

The Java Trap

And while you are pondering the idea of not paying, don't forget Sun does aggressively defend their intellectual property in court...

I'm convinced I never want to get into an A380, but I could probably handle it if I could fly in the suite, and didn't have to wait for my 500 other friends on the plane to exit first...

(thx to http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/)

THe Daily Show - all of it - is now online. (I'm sure you know).

I don't like the segmenting, but I'll take what I can get until it comes onto Joost :)

I found the following clip, his first monolog after 9/11, particularly moving. Not much else to add.