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		<title>FFII&#8217;s &#8220;World day against software patents&#8221; on IPKat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, I must tell that I&#8217;m a former FFII member (and a regular IPkat reader).
I understand that the somewhat dry style of the FFII release is uselessly offendant to IP lawyers around, and that this doesn&#8217;t add anything to the debate. 
This said, I met many IP professionnals at FFII, so swpat involved people shouldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tronche.com/blog/2008/09/03/ffiis-world-day-against-software-patents-on-ipkat/</link>
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		<title>I wrote a transcription for  Freeman Dyson&#8217;s Let&#8217;s look for life in the outer solar system at TED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The original video is here.
You can see the subtitles on YouTube subtitler.
The full transcription.

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		<link>http://tronche.com/blog/2008/08/11/i-wrote-a-transcription-for-freeman-dysons-lets-look-for-life-in-the-outer-solar-system-at-ted/</link>
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		<title>IP blackmail, music new business models</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you threat someone on IP ground, be right, or prepare for retaliation:
 Groundless patent threat over wine tap leads to Smurfit payout
&#8220;The industry’s efforts to salvage its sales-based revenue model have compelled it to resist consumer demand for full, unfettered, DRM-free access to music; blocked consumer electronics makers and technology firms from offering new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tronche.com/blog/2008/07/01/65/</link>
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		<title>Good conduct when fighting for your ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrong­ful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.”
Mart­in Luther King, Jr.

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		<link>http://tronche.com/blog/2007/08/21/good-conduct-when-fighting-for-your-ideas/</link>
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		<title>Software companies see themselves as losing money on patents, according to patent law blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Patently-O blog conducted an informal survey by asking its readers &#8220;Overall, has your company made money from the patent system?&#8221;
On the software side, more companies describe themselves as &#8220;losing money&#8221; rather than &#8220;making money&#8221; from patents.
The result on Patently-O.
Not surprisingly, pharma companies see the opposite.

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		<link>http://tronche.com/blog/2007/08/17/software-companies-see-themselves-as-losing-money-on-patentsn-according-to-patent-law-blog/</link>
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		<title>SCO loses in court&#8230; and in stock market.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Judge Rules Novell Owns Key Software
This is part of my series &#8220;valuation of so-called intellectual property is much less than you may think&#8221; (at least, if you&#8217;re not one of my regular readers).
SCO was claiming &#8220;intellectual property&#8221; over UNIX software.
A federal judge rules otherwise.
In the middle of the day, SCO&#8217;s share was losing 72% hitting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tronche.com/blog/2007/08/14/sco-loses-in-court-and-in-stock-market/</link>
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		<title>Qualcomm, Broadcom, and the valuation of patents.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may remember that Broadcom claims Qualcomm is infringing some of its patents, and thus got a ban on Qualcomm patents based cell phone chips.
On the other side, Qualcomm kept secret it was holding video compression patents during the H.264 standardization phase, and then tried to blackmail make money from it. However Qualcomm was found [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tronche.com/blog/2007/08/14/qualcomm-broadcom-and-the-valuation-of-patents/</link>
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		<title>Jeffrey Pfeffer on the obsession for cost, strategic planning and execution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If location [of R&#038;D] was determined by cost, Silicon Valley would be empty.&#8221;
&#8220;[strategic planning] is important (&#8230;). But doing that thing well—execution—is what sets companies apart. Every football play is designed to go for a huge gain. The reason it doesn’t is because of execution—people drop balls, miss blocks, go to the wrong place, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tronche.com/blog/2007/08/10/jeffrey-pfeffer/</link>
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		<title>The thin line between IP and protectionism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ruling Goes Against Qualcomm In Its Broadcom Patent Dispute.
There&#8217;s a ban going on preventing import in the US of cell phones based on some Qualcomm 3G patents.
This is a power-saving (software) related patent, by the way.
In some sense, Qualcomm, who is by no way stranger to patent wars, only reap the whirlwind it helped sewed.
But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tronche.com/blog/2007/08/08/the-thin-line-between-ip-and-protectionism/</link>
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		<title>AFDEL, édition de logiciel, open source</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Je viens de lire l&#8217;analyse de l&#8217;AFDEL sur le marché de l&#8217;édition logicielle en France.
Quoi que l&#8217;étude soit intéressante, il me semble que l&#8217;absence de comparaison avec l&#8217;open source brille par son absence.
Un client est en effet souvent face au choix soit d&#8217;acheter un progiciel, soit de demander à un intégrateur d&#8217;adapter un logiciel open [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tronche.com/blog/2007/06/22/afdel-edition-de-logiciel-open-source/</link>
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