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And by my earlier criticism of the IIPA position that open source == piracy…there might be something to that. Feel free to copy and distribute any of the open source software I’ve ever written. Give it to a friend, a neighbor, copy it to whatever devices, run it, use it, rip it and enhance it.…

One of the most interesting things to happen in the past couple of years, is Microsoft’s embrace of Open Source. This means different things to various people I’ve spoken with at Microsoft. Some seem genuinely sincere. Some seem less so. What hasn’t changed is Microsoft’s behavior to the Open Source community at large. They have…

It was more than a month ago that I started my pilgrimage to Texas to prepare for and participate in a court case in East Texas, but it still seems like only yesterday. As Groklaw aptly reports, opposing counsel pressed not only the question of whether Red Hat and Novell infringed three patents originally issued…

Some friends of Open Source are banging out an OSHW definition. They’re doing a good job so far. If you’re making open source hardware, make sure that you comply with the definition, and then tell people that you do. I’m going to do that for my “Environmental Sensing with Arduino” talk at OSCON this summer.

Our friends over at the Free Software Foundation were kind enough to send me an advance copy of their new documentary to preview. It’s entitled Patent Absurdity and it tells the story of software patents through the words of many familiar figures in the world of software freedom, framed by a discussion of the Bilski…