I wrote a transcription for Freeman Dyson's Let's look for life in the outer solar system at TED
The original video is here. You can see the subtitles on YouTube subtitler. The full transcription.
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IP blackmail, music new business models
If you threat someone on IP ground, be right, or prepare for retaliation: Groundless patent threat over wine tap leads to Smurfit payout “The industry’s […]
Installing tikiwiki under Ubuntu 7.10
I naively tried to install tikiwiki (1.9.7+dfsg-2ubuntu1.1) on an Ubuntu box with synaptic. After install, tikiwiki wasn't working. I got only blank pages on tikiwiki. […]
Automatically forward X connections (Ubuntu)
I have the habit of having one user per function (for example customer care is a user, dev is a user and so on). So […]
IE with Linux
The fastest way to run ie inside Linux: ies4linux (google for it).
Good conduct when fighting for your ideas
“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 […]
Software companies see themselves as losing money on patents, according to patent law blog
The Patently-O blog conducted an informal survey by asking its readers “Overall, has your company made money from the patent system?” On the software side, […]
SCO loses in court… and in stock market.
Judge Rules Novell Owns Key Software This is part of my series “valuation of so-called intellectual property is much less than you may think” (at […]
Qualcomm, Broadcom, and the valuation of patents.
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. […]
Jeffrey Pfeffer on the obsession for cost, strategic planning and execution
“If location [of R&D] was determined by cost, Silicon Valley would be empty.” “[strategic planning] is important (…). But doing that thing well—execution—is what sets […]