Buzz has been building over the past few days about what will be the next X Prize. If you don’t know what the first X Prize was all about, skip down a bit. The new Google Lunar X Prize was announced today. The prize purse is $20 million for the grand prize winner, $5 million [...]
Archive for 13 September 2007
New X Prize cooler than ever
Posted: 13 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: google, mars, moon, rovers, spacecraft, spaceflight, x prize
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Fair use is good for business, duh!
Posted: 13 September 2007 in UncategorizedTags: computing industry, economics, google, law, microsoft, non-profit, patent reform, patents, politics
The Computer and Communications Industry Assocation is a nonprofit organization with members including Google, Microsoft, RedHat, Sun, and the Linux Foundation. To boil it down: they’re a lobbying group for the computing industry. I’m not saying they are therefore bad: it’s the unfortunate state of Washington that everything and everyone has to have a lobbyist [...]
