Category Archives: IntellectualProperty

Why Safari won't matter

AppleĀ released Safari 3.1 today, and has claimed that it is “the world’s fastest browser”. “Safari loads web pages 1.9 times faster than IE 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2. Safari also runs JavaScript up to six times faster … Continue reading

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That's going too far, DostPost!

DostPost.com is an interesting idea with great potential – a platform, they say, for sharing notes, projects, news, events, and collaborating across universities. They’ve sent out invitations to the IITs, the IIMs and IISc. However, DostPost has one fatal flaw: … Continue reading

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On reverse-engineering, patents and open source.

Bryan Cantrill, kernel engineer extraordinaire and co-author of Dtrace, blogged his thoughts about reverse-engineering and patents in the context of Linus moving the Linux kernel souce code mgmt system from BitKeeper. I (like many engineers, I suspect) view reverse engineering … Continue reading

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