This is the year the Internet officially stopped being fun. Is there really no room left for creativity in the computer business? The innovation that drives the computing and electronics industries is directly threatened by the continued expansion and abuse of the patent and copyright laws. ... under the DMCA, no developer or consumer can be safe. Is that the future we want to live in? This article is one of those annual retrospectives that might actually be informative if you've been at Gitmo for the last year, but the author does reiterate a few points worth noting. |