Interview About Patents with Dan Ravicher
Saturday, January 10 2004 @ 01:43 AM EST

OSRM To Offer Vendor-Neutral Indemnification -- FORM
Tuesday, January 13 2004 @ 03:01 AM EST

Groklaw's New Group Project -- The Timeline Project
Wednesday, February 04 2004 @ 09:36 AM EST

This project is highly complex and we anticipate it may well take a full year to complete. I will manage the "front-end" and post the timeline in small draft sections for public comment as we develop it; OSRM has agreed to support me by doing much of the "backend" work, including identifying and prioritizing areas where further historical research or documentary support would be desirable, and tagging, indexing, and storing relevant information for the timeline as it comes in from contributors. But the project is ours and belongs to Groklaw, and it will be our present to the world.

OSRM has simultaneously retained me, part-time, to work on their indemnification project as their Director of Litigation Risk Research. Not only that but they are donating a certain portion of my time to Groklaw, which will free me from having to do so much nonrelated paralegal work and be free to really focus for the next year on this project. I am very excited about the project and I hope we'll have fun too. Groklaw will continue, meanwhile, as it is, and it remains noncommercial and my personal baby. Well, more accurately, ours, because Groklaw wouldn't be much without you.

February 28 2004 First Internet Archive record of the Software Rights Archive web page

The Software Rights Archive serves as a trusted, objective source of historical information about the development of software from its origins through the present day. The Archive contains a large library of licensed source code, rarer forms of technical literature and documentation, and oral histories by numerous key individual contributors to the development of information technology, with a particular focus on contributors to the Unix and the Gnu/Linux Operating systems. Archive information is indexed, tagged and organized electronically into topical Timelines so that it can be searched in a highly efficient manner using sophisticated search methodologies.