Derek says John Dvorak reachs a new low in his latest uninformed rant which, considering his past, is quite impressive. John Dvorak continues to impress me with his ability to completely misrepresent issues. He brings new meaning to FUD. Why PC Magazine continues to employ him is beyond me. Like Derek...
Stephen Speicher, writing in his weekly column on Engadget, discusses the significance of the recent Grokster and Brand X rulings . I was actually preparing a similar post but have been too busy to fully digest Brand X and get around to doing so. So in my laziness, I'm deferring partially to Stephen...
Some bad news from SCOTUS(Blog). The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that developers of software violate federal copyright law when they provide computer users with the means to share music and movie files downloaded from the internet. Read Justice Souter's opinion . Justice Ginsburg concurrence (joined...
Some big breaking news today that Michael Dell's private investment firm bought $99.5M worth of debt in Red Hat. The actual transaction was in January 2004, just months after Dell began offering Red Hat Enteprise on its servers in November 2003. (I believe they still don't offer the desktop flavor, though...
Denise Howell says : " According to the L.A. Times, President Bush is expected to sign a fascinating piece of legislation , the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act ." Alex at Copyfight asks (and answers) what, exactly, did Congress propose to legalize , in response to this story with the headline...