Volume 3, Issue 28
July 20, 2007

FOSS v FOSS, a Showcase in Limited Potential
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Is FOSS Shooting itself in the Foot?

As FOSS develops, projects within the movement are finding some of their stiffest competition with other FOSS projects. Noel Le examines this ironic but unsurprising tendency.

- Read Noel's blogs here and here (7/18/07)

New BessenMeurer Patent Study and Duffy Remarks

A forthcoming book on patents attempts to estimate the value of patents using data on publicly-traded firms' patent portfolios. Solveig Singleton addresses some of the advantages and problems of their analysis.

- Read Solveig's blog here (7/16/07)

iPhones and Consumer Slavery

Do iPhones limit their users freedoms? Noel Le offers some arguments on the issue and the “buzzword Libertarians” who have also addressed it.

- Read Noel's blog here (7/17/07)

EU Competition Law Strikes Again

Regulation of the music industry in the EU seems to proceed quite differently than in the U.S. Solveig Singleton highlights some of the reasons and wonders whether anyone will ever actually come up with a permanent "fix" that works.

- Read Solveig's blog here (7/19/07)