Author Archives: Dan Gillmor

A Sign of the Linux Times

The “Zones” people, who run the popular PC Zone and Mac Zone catalogs and online stores, have just opened a Linux e-store. The offerings are, predictably, fairly meager given the nascent status of the third-party commercial Linux market. But the … Continue reading

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Google Plus Open Directory

Google, which has become the best of the Web search engines, has linked up with the Open Directory Project to create an extremely useful site called Google Web Directory. Recommended. Patents and the NASDAQ Rout What’s the connection? There is … Continue reading

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A Bandwidth Breakthrough?

It may well be. TeraBeam Networks has been in stealth mode for some time. But the company’s coming-out party today here at the annual PC Forum conference suggested that the company will soon be in the public eye. TeraBeam, based … Continue reading

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Richard Stallman on the Bezos Open Letter

Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation, has this comment on the open letter from Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon.com, in which Bezos calls for reform of the deeply flawed U.S. patent system. PC Forum I’m … Continue reading

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Response from the Patent Office

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued this brief comment on Jeff Bezos’ open letter on improving the patent system: We believe the existing patent law works very well for all technologies. At the same time, we welcome Mr. Bezos … Continue reading

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The Patent Mess: Jeff Bezos Responds

There’s major progress to report this morning on the patent front. Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon.com, is posting an open letter on his company’s Web site, responding to the widespread outrage in the Internet community about Amazon’s … Continue reading

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We Interrupt This Vacation…

Yes, I took my computer with me. It was either that or attempt to deal with 1,000 e-mail messages when I returned. Weblogs in the Mainstream Steve Outing, who writes the “Stop the Presses” feature for Editor & Publisher Online, … Continue reading

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Clinton Takes Privacy More Seriously

In an appearance at Novell’s San Jose campus on Friday, President Clinton had some strong words to say about the need for privacy online. This was good news, because his administration has been leading the charge on behalf of law … Continue reading

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