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Sun continues the march toward service

What does intellectual property mean in the age of service? With Sun open-sourcing more of their products, Microsoft offering their products more like "services" rather than "sales" (er, licenses), and IBM having a huge service side, where will intellectual property be, and who will want it? I counted 4 relatively new books out about how the current use of IP is "killing creativity" (I'd put them here but I think I purposefully lost them) -- so will people be convinced? Will IP law become so ignored as to be moot? Or will everything change to a service (music subscription v buying music; software subscription v buying software)? Stay tuned.

posted by Dana Bostrom @ 20:04