5. Patents and Open Source | THUNK
This week, it's frickin' cold in NY, but we're looking at the history of intellectual property law (and its recent abuses in the tech industry), as well as open-source software!
Links for the Curious:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20...
http://www.forbes.com/asap/2002/0624/...
http://www.jwalkonline.org/docs/Grad%...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-...
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/i...
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/hi...
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject....
http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_brown_on...
NEWS
1-Million-Neuron Simulator Almost Up & Running: http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/12/brai...
Microsoft Subtly States that the US Government is a Security Threat to PC Users:
http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-us-gov...
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