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Great Artists Still Steal

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Lloyd

Young great artists still steal.
Old great artists litigate?
I missed the news about the Apple-HTC Patent Lawsuit (Google Android) until tonight when I found out about it on Mark Jaquith’s blog.
I’m happy that these cards of Apple are finally on the table. … Continue reading →

Posted in Computing, Consuming, Free Culture, Opinion | Also tagged Apple Computer Inc, Chilling Effects, Fairness, google, Google Android, HTC, Innovating, innovation, Inventing, Invention, iPad, iPhone, John Gruber, Lawsuit, Mark Jaquith, Multi-touch, Protesting | 4 Comments

Licensing is the suck!

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Lloyd

As I recently wrote the obvious, “licensing is legal, and legal things are complex”. I should have wrote, licensing is the suck!
When ever I start thinking about licensing and it being the suck, I think to Lawrence Lessig’s keynote presentation … Continue reading →

Posted in Collaborating | Also tagged A theft of our common culture, bsd, cc, collaborating, copy, copyright wars, create, Create like itâ€™s 1790, creative, creative commons, creativity, eff, fair use, Free Culture, free society, gnu, GPL, harm, Help us by writing on the check you send in, I got to go back to my life., If you are explaining, If You Are unwilling to Fight For Your Freedom . . . Yo, innovation, intellectual property, it was nature in 179, license, licensing, nature, no-brainer, Nothingâ€™s changed, Open Source, Open Source Movement, patents, property, rebuilding nature, share, unregulated, unregulated use, What have you done about it, you are losing, You build a common base that other people can build upo | 3 Comments