http://www.michaeldolan.com/1194 Linux, Law, Open Source, and a Comedy of Errors Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:15:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.michaeldolan.com/1194/comment-page-1#comment-17829 More proof the US Congress (and downstream courts) have not kept up with a changing world Fri, 16 May 2008 19:42:13 +0000 http://www.michaeldolan.com/?p=1194#comment-17829 [...] If you can’t tell, these issues where we have refused to modernize our legislation and/our court precedent fire me up. While I understand that oil, energy, and Iraq are very important issues in the US, these arcane principles that we have not adjusted for the modern world really do prohibit our society from advancing and innovating. Instead of taking new technologies and riding their full potential, the innovators are constantly caught up in a complex web of vague/loose rights that make it impossible to move forward. This ties right into the software patent post from earlier today. [...] [...] If you can’t tell, these issues where we have refused to modernize our legislation and/our court precedent fire me up. While I understand that oil, energy, and Iraq are very important issues in the US, these arcane principles that we have not adjusted for the modern world really do prohibit our society from advancing and innovating. Instead of taking new technologies and riding their full potential, the innovators are constantly caught up in a complex web of vague/loose rights that make it impossible to move forward. This ties right into the software patent post from earlier today. [...]

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