Volume 3, Issue 18
May 4, 2007

Digg Proves that Progress is Not a Given
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Professor Randy Picker on Digg

Digg.com recently refused to remove a code that allows people to pirate HD-DVDs. Jim DeLong discusses the importance of institutions that protect intellectual property to civilization. Solveig Singleton also offers some thoughts from an intellectual property law professor on the matter.

- Read Jim’s and Solveig’s blogs here and here (5/3/2007)

The Cultured Elite

Noel Le briefly discusses what people think makes a company succeed and attempts to apply those findings to Google, whose first-quarter earnings grew at twice the rate of Microsoft’s.

- Read Noel’s blog here (4/29/2007)

The Silence of the Wolves

The most recent version of the General Public License may or may not be compatible with DRM. Jim DeLong, both in this blog and his recent op-ed, explains why the motives of the Free Software Foundation and their corporate partners might not be compatible in this case.

- Read Jim’s blog here (4/30/2007)