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The Case for Abolishing Patents (Yes, All of Them) - Business - The Atlantic

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:02:49 +0000

Critics have suggested plenty of reasonable reforms, from eliminating software patents to clamping down on "trolls" who buy up patent portfolios only so they can file lawsuits. But do we need a more radical solution? Would we be possibly be better off without any patents at all?

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The Case for Abolishing Patents (Yes, All of Them) - Business - The Atlantic

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:02:49 +0000

Tags: #innovation #patents #tech #to:fb

Patent wars, Silicon Valley, and DIY software innovators. - Slate Magazine

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:13:51 +0000

Patents are supposed to reward innovation, but in the software industry, they are having the opposite effect. The patent system has become a minefield that punishes innovators who accidentally infringe the patents of others. There are now so many software patents in force that it is practically impossible to avoid infringing them all.

Tags: #copyfight #imported:pinboard #innovation #patents

End the Patent Wars

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:56:43 +0000

Tags: #innovation #law #patents

RIAA-led mob threatens innovation, Senator warns

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:24:38 +0000

Tags: #copyfight #innovation #riaa

Folding Plug System

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:49:27 +0000

"‘Folding Plug’ changes the shape form the normal U.K plug into a 10mm thickness object"

Tags: #awesome #design #electricity #electronics #innovation #plugs #power #product #uk

Yahoo committed seppuku today « The Jason Calacanis Weblog

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:54:19 +0000

Tags: #analysis #boohoo #business #choicevalueinnovation #google #innovation #microhoo #microsoft #qft #search #yahoo

About Generativity - Standblog

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:05:05 +0000

"Generativity describes in broad terms the ability of a self-contained system to provide an independent ability to create, generate or produce content without any input from the originators of the system."

Tags: #creation #generativity #innovation #openweb

Rands In Repose: The Makers of Things

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:10:33 +0000

"Someone, sometime soon is going to start describing the climb out of this impressive hole we’ve dug for ourselves, and they’re going to call it “America 2.0”. Clever, yes. We need a new version of ourselves and that’s going to involve bright, unexpected ideas from those we least expect them from, and they’re going to strike you as impossible. All you need to do to understand these terrifyingly ambitious ideas is to look back at what we’ve already done to understand what we can do."

Tags: #amen #america #bridges #brooklyn #economy #innovation

IT Conversations: Jeff Bonforte

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:43:53 +0000

"instead of a description of what he calls Telephone 3.0, he delivers an entertaining and typically forthright argument in favor of anger and its power to drive innovation."

Tags: #anger #bonforte #innovation #podcasts #rants #yahoo

Elatable | Bradley Horowitz » Blog Archive » Marc Andreessen on Employee Retention…

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:30:35 +0000

"We’re like the roadies, building the stage, working the soundboards, the spotlights, etc. We also provide a “house band” of super talented session musicians. But it’s the Yahoos (i.e. everyone else) who gets to climb up on stage and shine. "

Tags: #brickhouse #hack #innovation

RSS wasn't invented - Scripting News: 1/2/2007

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:54:48 +0000

"But RSS doesn't have an inventor. It wasn't invented. Something else happened, something harder than invention, imho -- an activity that we don't have a word for in the English language."

Tags: #innovation #invention #rss #winer

Jon Rowett's Workblog - Beers and innovation and beers

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:10:18 +0000

"The snail! The snail!', they cry. 'How can we possibly escape!?."

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