Monopoly and Competition

Some companies are engaging in very creative maneuvering around the omnipresent threat of patents. The Open Invention Network (OIN), for example (Wiki entry), is a type of...

It's somewhat striking that modern libertarian advocates of patent rights seem blithely unaware of the utterly monopolistic, completely unlibertarian origin of "patent grants" by English monarchs. At the very least, they ought to be a...

Last night, a lady from my neighborhood just delivered her last pint of chicken salad to my door. Her chicken salad—made by "The Chicken Salad Chick"—has been all the rage, with everyone in the neighborhood forking over for this stuff.

It's a classic case of a suburban food hysteria. But...

Yesterday the president of the Open Source Initiative attempted to show how the philosophy underscoring the open-source movement and libertarianism are best pals.

But can they even be enemies?

The problem with his argument, along with...