shakespeare in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 4.11.05
Round-Up Like most people at one time or another, the Round-Up finds itself this week wondering how much better Shakespeare would have been if only he'd been fully conversant with the whole text messaging phenomenon, rather than... [04 Nov 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Patents are killing software innovation
Comment If the works of Shakespeare or the Bible were to be patented, it would become extraordinarily difficult to write anything. Individuals should be rewarded for their accomplishments, but patents aren't the way to do it in... [31 Aug 2004]
IT Myths: The tallest tech tales, all in one place
Comment While some readers felt it was an open and shut case that Grace Hopper coined the phrase (similar usage, it turns out, goes all the way back to a pre-computer Will Shakespeare), most of us are in general agreement that... [01 Aug 2003]
Devil's Advocate: That’s MY code
Comment Shakespeare, Mozart and the King James Bible are all works that came into being without benefit of copyright. For decades artists have argued over ownership of songs and other media. For centuries ownership of any idea... [30 Jun 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Rights to intellectual property? How absurd
Comment Shakespeare, Bach and Mozart were eminently creative without benefit of IPR. Martin Brampton, director at consultancy Black Sheep Research, this week questions the concept. Intellectual property rights (IPR) are talked... [08 Jan 2002]
Model Management: Japan - "The whirligig of time"
Comment But as Shakespeare's clown Feste observes in the comedy Twelfth Night, "The whirligig of time brings in his revenges. In the aftermath of World War II the US General MacArthur sent business guru W. Edwards Deming into... [12 Mar 2001]
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