links for 2007-01-12

Gossip has always had a delightful user interface. Now it has new innards in the form of Telepathy, an communications framework that provides pluggable, multiple protocol compatibility and awesome features such as Google Talk (jingle) and videophone funct

“IBM believes raising patent quality will encourage continued investment in innovation by individuals, academic institutions and companies of all sizes, while preventing the over-protection that works against the public interest.” — Not just strutting, t

“Study on the Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU.” — Long title, great report. Pointed out by Janet Hawtin.

“If we accept all the Star Wars films as the same canon, then a lot that happens in the original films has to be reinterpreted in the light of the prequels.” — Awesome analysis, concluding that most of the other characters were playing second fiddle to R