It was only a couple of weeks ago that I went to a lecture by Sumantra Ghoshal at Leeds. This morning the news came through that he’d died in London, aged 55. A real loss.
Archive for 4 March 2004
This deserves a wider airing – call me cynical, but it hasn’t come as any great suprise to find that Microsoft might be financing SCO’s FUD campaign against Linux.
After all, they’re convicted monopolists who have a long history of stomping all over the competition. Why should this time be any different. Unless someone (US government? the European Commission?) is going to stand up to them and take them apart, it’s not going to change…
Interesting to see that the concept of copyleft is beginning to gain some traction:
“The ideas of copy-left, or of a more liberal regime of copyright, are receiving wider and wider support,” said Debora L. Spar, a professor at Harvard Business School. “It’s no longer a wacky idea cloistered in the ivory tower; it’s become a more mainstream idea that we need a different kind of copyright regime to support the wide range of activities in cyberspace.”
Hardly a representative of the loony fringe of the “give it all away” school.
But some people don’t necessarily get it:
Cary H. Sherman, the president of the Recording Industry Association of America, said that “there isn’t a lot here to disagree with” from his industry’s perspective, since the recording industry signed an agreement with technology companies a year ago stating that it would not push for government-mandated technology solutions for its copyright problems.
“I certainly agree that there shouldn’t be any rush to judgment where new technologies and intellectual property issues are in conflict,” he said, “but one should also not assume that one could wait forever.”
So that’s from the organisation that’s in bed with this kind of crap.
