Pinboard: bookmarks for sogrady tagged 'software'

disagree with this more or less completely. the point is not that software can't be inventive, it's that a.) there is no system by which patents can be successfully vetted and granted, b.) it is self-evident that we have zero issues with the incentive for innovation (the nominal purpose for patents), and c.) if anything, the system is disincentive would be inventors b/c they have no way of knowing if what they're inventing is patented or not.

also, 7 years is far, far too long. consider the Apple/HTC issue presently. how does telling HTC they can release an Android handset in 2017 help, at all?

patents software
march 2010 by sogrady

copy to mine

pmuellr: prior art

serving as a fact witness in a patent trial

patents priorart technology software pmuellr factwitness from delicious
march 2010 by sogrady

copy to mine

Hacker News | Ask HN: Cases where software patents have prevented progress?

just for my later reference

patents software hackernews ip
january 2010 by sogrady

copy to mine

Steve Jobs hates the App Store | FactoryCity

i've heard stranger theories

apple software stevejobs chrismessina appstore developers
november 2009 by sogrady

copy to mine

Keith Bergelt: The Case for Market Based Patent Reform - CNBC Guest Blog - CNBC.com

"The foregoing dynamics underscore the need for legislative, regulatory and judicial patent reform coupled with market-led patent reform. Absent a joint market, industry and government effort that is comprehensive and seeks to resolve all of the challenges posed by today’s patent system, the result of legislative reform will be suboptimal."

patents system legislativereview regulation oin software
november 2009 by sogrady

copy to mine

Red Hat tells Supremes: software patents stifle innovation - Business Exchange

couldn't agree more. i can't say it enough: there is no realistic process for processing and granting software patents, so allowing the current system to persist is borderline criminal.

software patents redhat scotus
october 2009 by sogrady

copy to mine

Code Monkeyism: The dark side of NoSQL

the tools definitely have their limitations, but a lot of that is lifecycle rather than intrinsic flaws in the approach

nosql altdb database software cloud management databases couchdb criticism cassandra
october 2009 by sogrady

copy to mine

Stefano’s Linotype » Blog Archive » Android, say thanks to Bilski

Stefano on Android and its potential patent implications vis a vis Java

android java stefanomazzocchi software patents sun
december 2008 by sogrady

copy to mine

Practising Law Institute - Patent Practice Center - Federal Circuit Decides Software No Longer Patentable

has Luis written on this and i just missed it?

luisvilla software patents bilski
november 2008 by sogrady

copy to mine

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Windows Azure from a Developer's Perspective

one perspective on Azure

windows web software saas microsoft cloud azure rest programming platform scalability
november 2008 by sogrady

copy to mine

Paper tigers and hidden dragons » Untangled

"The point is that you don’t need to change technologies (or even interaction styles) to solve a problem of information transfer efficiency. Sometimes you just need to rethink the problem. There are many systems for which a different architecture is far more efficient, just as XMPP is far more efficient than HTTP for something like group chat. Large-scale collaborative monitoring is not one of them. An XMPP solution is far more applicable to peer-to-peer monitoring, where there is no central service that is interested in the entire state of a big site like Flickr, but even then we have to keep in mind that the economics of the crowd will dictate scalability, not the protocol used for information transfer."

royfielding xmpp http web software scalability pubsub scaling notification messaging performance
september 2008 by sogrady

copy to mine

Google Code Blog: Two new ways to location-enable your web apps

this is older, but very cool

gears geolocation webdesign web2.0 software programming mobile
september 2008 by sogrady

copy to mine

DeWitt Clinton » Blog Archive » On Fighting the Web Itself

brilliant post. i'd argue with bits - the assertion that richer environments = better UIs, for example - but the general point is well made and well taken. i'll need to comment on this.

dewittclinton webdev web standards software silverlight programming opensource fork fight google adobe microsoft
august 2008 by sogrady

copy to mine

Coding Horror: Is Money Useless to Open Source Projects?

"I'm absolutely dumbfounded to learn that contributing money isn't an effective way to advance an open source project. Surely money can't be totally useless to open source projects... can it?"

codinghorror software opensource money business
august 2008 by sogrady

copy to mine

David Siegel - The Plenitude of Arboreal Beauty » Blog Archive » Announcing GNOME Do 0.5: “The Fighting 0.5″

the 0.5 release is tremendous. phenomenal upgrade (there's a PPA, Ubuntu users).

linux ubuntu gnome software do todo quicksilver freeware mono
june 2008 by sogrady

copy to mine

Daring Fireball: Why Apple Won't Buy Adobe

interesting. i think some of these objections are questionable and less than tangible, but the point is well taken. still, think what Apple could do with unfettered access to Adobe's dev/designer community.

apple adobe software business johngruber
may 2008 by sogrady

copy to mine

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: McKinsey surveys the new software landscape

the times, they are a'changing

nicholascarr mckinsey saas software tools enterprise market trends work
april 2008 by sogrady

copy to mine

Coding Horror: We Don't Use Software That Costs Money Here

"The competitive pressure of free products on commercial tools intensifies every year. It's relentless. And to be honest, I feel many of the commercial alternatives aren't evolving fast enough to stay ahead of their free competition."

opensource economics business free software
april 2008 by sogrady

copy to mine

Photo Matt » WordPress is Open Source

really unclear on why MT picked this fight; the facts are not on their side

wordpress movabletype mattmullenweg blogging software opensource
march 2008 by sogrady

copy to mine

Coding Horror: A Question of Programming Ethics

this is very bad juju, and yet another example of why guarding your password is important

security gmail google privacy programming software
march 2008 by sogrady

copy to mine

The Adoption-Led Market [on Simon Phipps, SunMink]

why volume is important. really could have done without the bats, though. i hate bats.

adoption volume ubiquity software economics
march 2008 by sogrady

copy to mine

About recordMyDesktop

need to give this a whirl and see if it's any more reliable than xvidcap, which has been spotty for me. only downside is OGG only output; need to see how our videocasting services handle - or don't - the format

ogg linux screencast video recording capture software desktop opensource recordmydesktop via:donnie
february 2008 by sogrady

copy to mine

Office Live Workspace Is Microsoft's Most Promising Web App Yet, But It's Tied to the Desktop

"[OLW] is useful for..people who would rather not load...Office just to...make some quick edits to a spreadsheet. But due to its...integration with Office, Microsoft's online service is unable to fully cash in on the momentum behind web apps."

microsoft ofice review software technology trends windows live workplace
december 2007 by sogrady

copy to mine

Movable Type Open Source - rc3.org

should be interesting to see what the reactions are to the opensourcing of Movable Type

movabletype rafecolburn opensource blogging software
december 2007 by sogrady

copy to mine

Phil Windley's Technometria | Starting a High Tech Business: Choosing a Deployment Model

an outline of potential deployment models for software firms, with pros and cons attached

philwindley deployment software strategy saas hosted
december 2007 by sogrady

copy to mine

Affero: A new GPL for software as a service | Underexposed - CNET News.com

a more stringent version of the GPL which extends the definition of distribution (and thereby the reciprocal provision) to SaaS; this is Google et al's worst nightmare

saas affero gpl distribution software opensource licensing
november 2007 by sogrady

copy to mine

Joyeur: Quo vadis, Computing. A Joyent Manifesto.

this should get people talking. i don't agree with all of it, but where there's smoke there's fire.

joyent operatingsystems software webservices davidyoung
november 2007 by sogrady

copy to mine

Luis Villa’s Blog / running for the GNOME Foundation Board

as always, Luis would have my vote (if i had one)

gnome law software foundation elections board
november 2007 by sogrady

copy to mine

Software Is Hard

Bill is right, this is brilliant. recommended reading.

software development chandler coding complexity via:bill
october 2007 by sogrady

copy to mine

Making it stick.: AMQP, XMPP

"I think we have a lot to learn still about how simple the enterprise can eventually be." - yes, precisely

architecture notification software xmpp amqp messaging scalability enterprise simplicity via:planetintertwinglymemes
september 2007 by sogrady

copy to mine

BambooInvoice: Simple, Beautiful, Open Source, Online Invoicing

interesting. i wonder if it can be integrated with Quickbooks Online Edition

bambooinvoice quickbooks gpl opensource invoicing software via:alex
september 2007 by sogrady

copy to mine

Spangle - A Sparkle Updater

the apt alternative for OS X?

package management osx software update via:alex
august 2007 by sogrady

copy to mine

A Patent Lie - New York Times

tons of folks have already pointed to this, but it's worth another link; how many times do we need to explain why software patents don't work?

software patents economics microsoft ip copyright
june 2007 by sogrady

copy to mine

Simon Phipps, SunMink: Seven Patent Reforms While We Wait For Nirvana

absolutely *phenomenal* patent post from Simon - absolutely outstanding; even the noted Sun critic Michael Dolan likes it

simonphipps patents software
may 2007 by sogrady

copy to mine

Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Microsoft is not the real threat

"Microsoft already spends a huge amount of money on patent settlements...That number will creep upwards until it’s abundantly clear to them that they would be better off if software patents were history." - a point i tried to make at NXT

nxt patents markshuttleworth microsoft software
may 2007 by sogrady

copy to mine

Greg Matter : Weblog

couple of folks pointed me to this, and they're right - it's a very useful, and very rational, take on patents and other mechanisms like copyright, trade secrets and so forth

gregpapadopoulos copyright ip opensource patents software sun tradesecrets
may 2007 by sogrady

copy to mine

Open Sources | InfoWorld | UK reaffirms its stance on software patents ("Yankee patent system, go home") | February 27, 2007 09:28 AM | By Matt Asay

i've often thought that the UK's arms length attitude towards open source was perplexing, but at least they have a sensible attitude towards software patents

uk software patents
february 2007 by sogrady

copy to mine

The Big Picture - Joel on Software

some interesting thoughts on Chandler's development decisions

spolsky chandler design software
january 2007 by sogrady

copy to mine

WriteRoom | Hog Bay Software

interesting concept. i could probably use something like this, though as Alex noted not being able to easily extract links would be inconvenient

writing os-x software innovative idea continuous-partial-attention via:Alex
december 2006 by sogrady

copy to mine

Photo Matt » MU Goes Gold

excellent news; this probably ensures that we'll use MU

wordpress mu blogging software php redmonk
november 2006 by sogrady

copy to mine

bbPress » Home

i'd somehow missed this; forums from the WordPress authors - i'd use it if we maintained forums

forums wiki wordpress forum software opensource php tools blog
november 2006 by sogrady

copy to mine

spyderous: Web 2.0 blog software

i concur; and since we're moving to WordPress, it'd be great if someone could build this on that platform

web2.0 lazyweb berkholz blogging software WordPress
october 2006 by sogrady

copy to mine

GROKLAW

a bit of GROKLAW commentary on the IBM v Amazon suit

ibm amazon groklaw community reaction litigation software patents
october 2006 by sogrady

copy to mine

Firefox Set Free in IceWeasel

IceWeasel? really seems like this should be unnecessary

copy to mine

JungleDisk - Reliable online storage powered by Amazon S3™

trialling this right now - kudos to the JungleDisk folks for the Linux client

amazon software storage tools useful linux cross-platform
october 2006 by sogrady

copy to mine

alexking.org: Blog > Product and Support Pricing

interesting thoughts on software product pricing & support from Alex

pricing software support tasks king
september 2006 by sogrady

copy to mine

HOWTO batch encode video for iPod under Linux [dive into mark]

bless Pilgrim for fixing this; soon as i get my video iPod fixed i'll be using this

pilgrim ipod linux software ubuntu video
august 2006 by sogrady

copy to mine

Disposable Software

thanks to Ryan for reminding me of this piece; disposable software is indeed exactly what i'm talking about

disposable software lesscode tomayko
august 2006 by sogrady

copy to mine

FORTUNE: Banish the HQ - Jun. 1, 2006

interesting piece on MySQL

mysql community culture distributed employment hiring iWork opensource virtual working team software collaboration
june 2006 by sogrady

copy to mine

When the bough breaks [dive into mark]

Pilgrim leaves OS X; the gains are slight, but i'm seeing a few more defections here and there

apple pilgrim linux mac opensource software gpl free-software openstandards
june 2006 by sogrady

copy to mine

TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Sharpcast Opens to the Public

had the privilege of meeting Sharpcast's Adam Tow at Mashup Camp and getting an early demo of this, and all i can say is that it's fast: absurdly fast

sharpcast tow startup sync software photos
june 2006 by sogrady

copy to mine

Subclock: The future of software.

wherein Mike speculates on the future of software - interesting reading; pay special attention to the bit on Amazon/Sun architectures becoming more commonplace - i couldn't agree more

olson amazon sun prediction internet network future computing software
may 2006 by sogrady

copy to mine

schrep's blog: Newer Uninstall Survey Data

via Alan comes this link with some interesting data on why people uninstall Firefox

firefox mozilla software survey browsers uninstall users
may 2006 by sogrady

copy to mine

GeorgeNava.com

some very cool XUL application launchers and things

xul firefox mozilla php programming ria rich-internet-application scripting software web2.0 javascript
march 2006 by sogrady

copy to mine

Jon Udell: Testing for Windows rot

this is why i'm no longer on Windows, actually

windows software rot os-x linux desktop systems-management
january 2006 by sogrady

copy to mine

Schneier on Security: Internet Explorer Sucks

Schneier's not fond of IE

ie firefox Schneier security software exploits browsers
january 2006 by sogrady

copy to mine

ChipLog » Blog Archive » Tagging and the GNOME Desktop

GNOME gets tagging? we'll see, but looks cool for now

gnome nautilus python search software tags linux desktop filesystems
december 2005 by sogrady

copy to mine

Alex Bosworth's Weblog: Trust, Morality, and Software Services

very important, very good essay from Alex: if you just read one linked feed of mine today, read this one

ethics internet research software trust saas privacy yahoo
november 2005 by sogrady

copy to mine

Boing Boing: Sony insider: DRM is discredited at Sony

here's hoping this proves to be true, but i'm not holding my breath

cd copyright drm podcast rootkit software sony security
november 2005 by sogrady

copy to mine

Miguel de Icaza

Miguel on the latest release of Mono

linux deicaza mono programming software update C# asp.net
november 2005 by sogrady

copy to mine

PBS | I, Cringely . November 10, 2005 - Paper War

interesting Cringely piece on the 'leaked' Ozzie/Gates memos

cringely Live economics google microsoft ms software web2.0 yahoo gates ozzie memo
november 2005 by sogrady

copy to mine

No Software Patents!

i agree with MySQL's Urlocker - Florian deserves your vote

nosoftwarepatents opensource eu election patents politics software muller
november 2005 by sogrady

copy to mine

Joel on Software - Tuesday, October 25, 2005

interesting thoughts from Joel on the eBay/Skype deal; worth reading

skype eBay capitalism business mba programming software market google microsoft yahoo
october 2005 by sogrady

copy to mine

Raible Designs ~ We Build Web Apps

sorry to miss you guys at this, but never heard back from the conf organizers on a comp pass - have fun in the meantime

keystone Software Conference raible colorado
october 2005 by sogrady

copy to mine

News - Gaim

"You can expect Gaim and other clients to be interoperable with Google Talk's voice features in the near future" - OUTSTANDING

google talk gaim desktop im software cross-platform
october 2005 by sogrady

copy to mine

MSN Messenger 7: consolidating Windows' lock-in strategy? - OSNews.com

mostly on target rant vis a vis Linux IM, but i think IM is far from the problem; it's things like iPod/iTunes that ultimately will hold a lot of mainstream kids back

linux desktop microsoft msn im software iPod iTunes
october 2005 by sogrady

copy to mine

Mills: IBM Has Advantage over 'Precarious' Startups

interesting interview with Steve Mills

mills ibm interview software opensource jboss
october 2005 by sogrady

copy to mine

Open Source: Now It's an Ecosystem

this is at once encouraging and worrisome; i imagine Asay will have something to say on the latter point eventually

business linux opensource software vc ecosystem community
october 2005 by sogrady

copy to mine

The Long Tail: The Long Tail of software (part 2)

great post on the Lont Tail of software - couldn't agree more