Hesh Wiener
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Mad Dog 21/21: Patent Depending
May 22, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreWhen you think of rights granted by law, such as the right to express your opinion, you usually think in positive terms. Positive rights guarantee freedom of action. If you’re willing to obey some rules and follow some procedures, you can own some property, you can drive a car, you can publish an article about patents that includes controversial opinions. Patent rights are different. They are negative rights. They allow you to restrict the activity of others. There are other negative rights in the law, of course, such as the right to exclude others from your home. But few negative
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Mad Dog 21/21: Patent Depending
May 22, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreWhen you think of rights granted by law, such as the right to express your opinion, you usually think in positive terms. Positive rights guarantee freedom of action. If you’re willing to obey some rules and follow some procedures, you can own some property, you can drive a car, you can publish an article about patents that includes controversial opinions. Patent rights are different. They are negative rights. They allow you to restrict the activity of others. There are other negative rights in the law, of course, such as the right to exclude others from your home. But few negative
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Mad Dog 21/21: Patent Lather
April 17, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreA while ago, in 1449 to be precise, King Henry VI of England issued a written proclamation bearing his official seal that for 20 years granted Flemish-born John of Utynam the exclusive right to make stained glass using his special process. Many other similar declarations, called litterae patentes or letters patent, meaning open letters, followed, each granting a monopoly to its holder. Only some went to inventors. Then and now, not every invention is patentable. In the Elizabethan era, you couldn’t patent a toilet bowl; today you can’t get an unequivocal patent on software in Europe. In both cases,
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Mad Dog 21/21: Patent Lather
April 17, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreA while ago, in 1449 to be precise, King Henry VI of England issued a written proclamation bearing his official seal that for 20 years granted Flemish-born John of Utynam the exclusive right to make stained glass using his special process. Many other similar declarations, called litterae patentes or letters patent, meaning open letters, followed, each granting a monopoly to its holder. Only some went to inventors. Then and now, not every invention is patentable. In the Elizabethan era, you couldn’t patent a toilet bowl; today you can’t get an unequivocal patent on software in Europe. In both cases,
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Mad Dog 21/21: Patent Lather
April 17, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreA while ago, in 1449 to be precise, King Henry VI of England issued a written proclamation bearing his official seal that for 20 years granted Flemish-born John of Utynam the exclusive right to make stained glass using his special process. Many other similar declarations, called litterae patentes or letters patent, meaning open letters, followed, each granting a monopoly to its holder. Only some went to inventors. Then and now, not every invention is patentable. In the Elizabethan era, you couldn’t patent a toilet bowl; today you can’t get an unequivocal patent on software in Europe. In both cases,
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Lincoln to Open SQL
March 6, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreIn 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. Today, one of his relatives, Cherie Booth (Blair), is the First Lady of the United Kingdom. In its youth, IBM was insanely jealous of its rivals. But by the mid-1970s, the mature IBM was so secure in its dominance of information processing that it felt it could, without risk, tell the world one all about one of its ideas, a database language called SEQUEL, later dubbed SQL. Today, competitors’ implementations of relational database engines built around SQL threaten to do to even more harm to IBM than the nearly
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Lincoln to Open SQL
March 6, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreIn 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. Today, one of his relatives, Cherie Booth (Blair), is the First Lady of the United Kingdom. In its youth, IBM was insanely jealous of its rivals. But by the mid-1970s, the mature IBM was so secure in its dominance of information processing that it felt it could, without risk, tell the world one all about one of its ideas, a database language called SEQUEL, later dubbed SQL. Today, competitors’ implementations of relational database engines built around SQL threaten to do to even more harm to IBM than the nearly
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Lincoln to Open SQL
March 6, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreIn 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. Today, one of his relatives, Cherie Booth (Blair), is the First Lady of the United Kingdom. In its youth, IBM was insanely jealous of its rivals. But by the mid-1970s, the mature IBM was so secure in its dominance of information processing that it felt it could, without risk, tell the world one all about one of its ideas, a database language called SEQUEL, later dubbed SQL. Today, competitors’ implementations of relational database engines built around SQL threaten to do to even more harm to IBM than the nearly
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Mad Dog 21/21: Virtual’s Impatience
January 30, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreThe more you know about virtualization–the ability of a computer to support working images of systems that don’t physically exist–the less sure you can be about its roots. For IBM‘s big commercial customers, virtualization arrived in the mid-1970s. Now the leader in virtualization, IBM was a laggard back then, and there is every possibility that virtualization technology from others will yet upstage Big Blue’s achievements. In computing, stardom can be as ephemeral as the theatrical ghosts of 1862, whose stunning impression on audiences set the stage for technology that first appeared nearly a century later.
IBM offers virtualization technology
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Mad Dog 21/21: Virtual’s Impatience
January 30, 2006 Hesh Wiener
… Read moreThe more you know about virtualization–the ability of a computer to support working images of systems that don’t physically exist–the less sure you can be about its roots. For IBM‘s big commercial customers, virtualization arrived in the mid-1970s. Now the leader in virtualization, IBM was a laggard back then, and there is every possibility that virtualization technology from others will yet upstage Big Blue’s achievements. In computing, stardom can be as ephemeral as the theatrical ghosts of 1862, whose stunning impression on audiences set the stage for technology that first appeared nearly a century later.
IBM offers virtualization technology