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Archive for September, 2005

Let’s talk about Tomorrow

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I don’t normally blog about what I do at Tomorrow. Conflict of interest, that sort of thing. A whole semester of drilling in legal and professional ethics internalises all that paranoia.

The thing is, there’s this little kerfuffle going on about Tomorrow’s linking policy, and I feel that there is much misunderstanding and misconceptions of what we’re doing. I know this post is very late, but I feel I should at least try to clarify certain issues, given that I have never spoken on this before.
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Written by Han

September 3rd, 2005 at 1:37 am

Posted in Blogs, Culture, Singapore

Monopolistic rent-seekers, meet Technology

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I find monopolies to be distasteful, as a matter of personal prejudice, even in situations where monopolies are optimal.

Even more detestable then, are people or commercial entities who make use of devices such as copyright, patent or trademarks to implement anti-competitive practices.
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Written by Han

September 1st, 2005 at 2:50 am

Posted in Economics, Technology

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Australia
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Australia