Views on patents and computers from a leading technology publisher
7/10/2000
If you want evidence of how important patent issues are to the computer community, look no further than the O'Reilly Network from Internet and technology book publisher O'Reilly & Associates. Smack dab in the middle of all the tech talk on programming languages and application development is this section on patents and intellectual property. O'Reilly President Tim O'Reilly sounds off on Amazon.com and engages in a discussion with the Free Software Foundation's Richard Stallman. Plus there's a list of controversial software patents and links to other news, opinion and resources on the subject. Take a peek to see what some of the techie types are thinking on patentswhen they're not busy inventing the new new thing.
Originally reviewed in Harvard Management Update's "Web Sites for Managers."
Originally reviewed in Harvard Management Update's "Web Sites for Managers."