The crowd can be smart and the crowd can be stupid. Part of the discussion on Brittanica deals with what the advantage is of social software and iCrowds. And when results are stupid or irrelevant. IS there for example a thing like a citizen scientist? Open source seems to work great: Linux, Samba, Apache are all [...]
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Posted in businessmodel, IPR on Jun 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
If you have invented something very interesting, you want to get a share of the action. I would. But fact is that our copyright laws and patents create a monopoly. And in general monopolies are bad for us. In this interesting article I read the case is made that Watt and the steam engine that he invented [...]
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Posted in IPR on Jun 12th, 2007 2 Comments »
Books by lawyers are usually very boring. I must admit, I am not objective because I am not a big fan of lawyers. It is not that I think they are not useful, but … well you got the point. But to my surprise I am reading one that is very interesting and well written at the same [...]
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