February 28, 2003
Financial Times: Exclusive rights to stagnate.
Lawrence Lessig. The system in America is broken - to the great detriment of software developers generally - and there is no reason to believe the Europeans could do any better. The claim that the US patent system is in crisis is nothing new. What is new is the identity of those making it.
Network World: IETF creates antispam research group.
Underscoring growing concern over spam, the Internet Engineering Task Force has created an Anti-Spam Research Group that aims to put unsolicited commercial e-mail in its crosshairs by setting standards for spam detection and potential legislation.
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