Jensen Harris announced that the Office 2007 Ribbon UI can be licensed . For the last year or so, one of the questions I've been asked again and again has been: "Can I use the new Office user interface in my own product?" I have to be honest - I'm a bit baffled at this whole thing. Note, they are not...
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Marty illustrates (quite literally) the problem with the Web 2.0 trademark. Marty argues, as I did before, that the mark is generic and thus unprotectable. He points out though that this was not just genericide, but "self-induced genericide". Before all of this happened, Alex realized the unifying theory...
Apparently not content with legal remedies (after all, Russia is not known for it's anti-piracy efforts), a Russian software developer took matters into his own hands . In February, Smirnov saw the dealer selling CDs with his company’s software at a computer market without a license. Smirnov demanded...
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on 03-31-2006
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Interesting article in Information Week about another broad patent which may lead to a RIM-like showdown. Another big patent fight may be looming. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a broad patent that could force tens of thousands of businesses to pay royalties for processes that have...
In the past, I had small disagreement with Robert Scoble in terms of republishing content. Robert said that "by publishing RSS as full text you're buying into a system where your words will be republished in a variety of ways." I disagreed with him, of course. The medium in which you publish...