Author: Our Man in Redmond

The news is up on Pamela Jones’ excellent techno-legal weblog Groklaw, where she quotes Bloomberg News: The European Parliament rejected a law on patents for software, ending a three-year effort by companies including...

Hey fellow Frogponders, I have a new toy you might be interested in testing. Details after the fold. Fair warning: If you have no experience with RSS, you may not be interested. On the other hand, if you use RSS at all, or tend...

This afternoon I got to thinking about the diary Steven D posted about how Col. Bob Pappas Thinks Liberals Are Cowards. His central thesis is that if “liberals” had been in charge in 1776, the American Revolution...

If you don’t see a Sunday Griot from me this weekend, don’t panic. I haven’t been shipped off to the tropics to work on my tan and eat glazed chicken. I hope. No, I’ll be out of town with the family for...

Booman nailed it today when he said, and I quote: George W. Bush does not think that the Taliban are his enemy. He doesn’t think Usama bin-Laden is his enemy. He doesn’t think former Ba’athists are his enemy,...