Putting the Open Source Community to Work on MyDoom
Recently, the MyDoom virus affected the sites of two of the biggest opponents to the Open Source community: SCO and Microsoft. While Vigilante action is plain wrong (a message that…
Intellectual property law
SCO vs. the world
One of the nice things about organizing events filled with geeks is the fact that I get to hang out with people that are smarter than me. The discussion on…
Digital Assets
The recent fights of the music industry remind me a lot about the early days of the personal computer industry. While I was still a kid then, it seems the…
RIAA lost the war
A new survey just highlighted that three quarters of teens feel that file sharing should be legal. This pretty much caps any chance for the music industry to survive under…
Napster Shut Down
It’s official: it’s curtain for Napster for now. The judge in a lawsuit filed the Recording Industry Association of America ordered the service to shut its doors by midnight this…