Did Barack Obama Just Appoint An Under-qualified Stooge and Privatizer Secretary of Education?
IRC Proceedings: March 4th, 2011 IRC logs for March 4th, 2011 Links 5/3/2011: OilRush is Coming, hypePad 2 no Match for Good Android Tablets Links for the day When Software Patents Defenders Change Their Minds Progressive thinkers seem to have decided to leave software patents behind, especially in an age of mass collaboration and ubiquitous computing (where software is a commodity) The Patent Reform Act is a Joke Why the “Patent Reform Act” is a waste of time and hardly a progressive piece of proposed legislation Google and Microsoft Are Not Friends US Justice Department Takes on the MPEG Cartel as IBM Distances Itself From Cartel Defenders The perils of cartels orbiting around multimedia formats are recognised by the federal government and an IBM senior slams the BSA MSBBC Finally Calls Out… Android (to Scare People) Another fine set of examples of BBC bias in this week’s news, favouring Microsoft and spreading lies about Microsoft’s competition, as usual In Age of Its Demise Micro