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Software Patent Insanity

Clemens Vasters has a brilliant post on "Software Patent" Insanity. He suggests using a community collaboration model as a means of practically managing patent office overload when it comes to...

patents open-source community rss innovation
July 1, 2005
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VS2005 Office Development Restrictions

While listening to various podcasts and reading blogs on VSTO 2005 I got the distinct impression that there are so many deployment restrictions to the VSTO functionality, it would be difficult to...

visual-studio office microsoft development-tools
April 1, 2005
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Jim Gray on Channel 9

An absolutely fascinating interview with Jim Gray is over at Channel 9. He labels his views as "the lunatic fringe". Huh!? It all made wonderful sense to me.

video software-architecture web-services industry-trends
March 22, 2005
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Class Designer C++ Support Cut

Bummer. Given the complexity of C++ reverse engineering compared to the simpler/cleaner languages such as C#, VB.NET and J# this is understandable.

visual-studio cpp class-design microsoft
March 4, 2005
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Blog Marketing

Today I did my usual reading through the blogs I've subscribed to within Newsgator on the web. Two posts (by Jeremy Allaire and Eric Mack) referred to commercial ventures that were new and...

blogging rss business-analysis
February 28, 2005
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MPAA

Got this link via neowin.net. To me it smacks of arrogance and heavy-handedness. I can just imagine the people who are really into content/video piracy getting a feeling of justification that they...

licensing industry-trends disruption
February 13, 2005
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