Richard Jefferson Interviewed in Com Ciência
Com Ciência No. 102, October 05, 2008
Author: Marta Kanashiro
Entrevistas
Original English text of the interview
Joint effort on patents
The Australian, September 24, 2008
Author: Jill Rowbotham
Joint effort on patents
Richard Jefferson’s Keynote presentation at ABIC 2008
Open source has revolutionized and energized information and communications technology. It has created billions in new wealth and new opportunities. It has forged a vigorous, competitive industry with great public support. It has gone well past the rhetoric of 'giving away' and moved into the logic of 'creating a shared and robust platform ...
Monty Says – Blog of Monty Widenius
Monty Says, June 28, 2008
Author: Monty Widenius
Monty Says
MySQL Founders Monty Widenius & David Axmark sponsor Patent Lens.
The appeal of Jefferson’s open source model
Business Standard, May 28, 2008
Author: Latha Jishnu
Richard Anthony Jefferson is a rare breed of scientist, perhaps, one of a kind. It's not merely because he is a skilled juggler and dancer, and an accomplished musician who plays the blues, Celtic, bluegrass and other styles on his guitar and mandolin. The American-born molecular ...
Firms Seek Patents on ‘Climate Ready’ Altered Crops
The Washington Post, May 13, 2008
Author: Rick Weiss
A handful of the world's largest agricultural biotechnology companies are seeking hundreds of patents on gene-altered crops designed to withstand drought and other environmental stresses, part of a race for dominance in the potentially lucrative market for crops that can handle global ...
India Takes an Open Source Approach to Drug Discovery
Cell, April 18, 2008
Author: Seema Singh
Leading Edge: Analysis
India Takes an Open Source Approach to Drug Discovery
Open source software may have been around for 17 years, but using an open source model to
speed up drug discovery is a relatively new idea. This month, India is launching a new open source
initiative for develo...