Wolf Richter

£8.25 – Pride of Calais, Sep 10, 2007. Late. More to follow…

Last Thursday a couple of OII DPhil students had the unique chance to have lunch with Martin Varsavsky, the founder and CEO of Fon and several other start-ups. Before Martin had spoken at the Saïd Business School on European entrepreneurialism and alternatives to emigration to Silicon Valley. I will write some more lines both on [...]

Just as we discussed about the subversive potential of open source software, I wondered if that is always the case. Linux is built on a kind of UNIX kernel. UNIX has been developed as a multi-user system featuring a sophisticated user rights management system. Windows on the other side had to introduce the rights concept [...]

When I researched Intellectual property in 2002 to find a suitable topic for my master’s thesis, the web was full with articles, comments and opinions on software patents. Most of them I found to lack proper significant scientific foundations and seemed to be more driven by pursuit of a more or less hidden agendas or [...]

As part of their quest to understand the wonders of the universe with particular focus on the Internet, a small group of dauntless OII investigators decided to launch an initiative to explore Second Life, currently the most talked about digital community. Following proper research in the respective sources, they were promised a “user created immersive [...]