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06 October 2008
The Marvellous Mr. arXiv
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Paul Ginsparg is one of the key players in the world of open access. Indeed, he was practising it online before it even had a name, when he...
12 September 2008
De-Fanging Microsoft
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Like many, I was intrigued and ultimately disappointed by the first of the new Microsoft ads. But I assumed that it was in the nature of a t...
28 July 2008
EPO Wins Patent for Jesuitical Casuistry
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Wow, there are some clever bunnies up at the EPO these days. Try this for size: Relying on a well-known and widely used definition, a comp...
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01 July 2008
Sir Bill and Sir Tim: A Tale of Two Knights
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On Open Enterprise blog .
23 June 2008
Good Bill, Bad Bill
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I have tremendous respect for what Bill and Melinda have chosen to do with the great wealth that Microsoft afforded. The Gates Foundation is...
06 June 2008
Bill Gates' Closed Source World
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Here's a frightening thought: Bill Gates is not so much giving up on his misguided closed-source approach to software as moving on to ap...
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25 April 2008
Lost in the Clouds
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Here's a piece about cloud computing that ask a pertinent question: Why isn't the world's biggest and most powerful software co...
23 April 2008
Humour of the Week
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"There's free software and then there’s open source," he suggested, noting that Microsoft gives away its software in developin...
19 February 2008
Monopoly in the DNA
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It seems that Bill Gates' foundation is affected with the same love of monopolies and keeping things closed as its creator: The chief o...
31 January 2008
Good Bill, Bad Bill, and The Art of Philanthropy
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On Linux Journal .
17 September 2007
BBC: Bill's Broadcasting Corporation
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You'd think they'd be a little more subtle about it, wouldn't you? The BBC has hired another Microsoft executive in a shakeup o...
10 July 2007
Microsoft, China, Piracy, the Future
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Sometimes the truth will out in the most surprising contexts. Like here, in this article about Microsoft's growing success in China: T...
02 July 2007
Open Source Life
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Fascinating : Whatever Carl Woese writes, even in a speculative vein, needs to be taken seriously. In his "New Biology" article, h...
08 March 2007
Welcome to Topsy-Turvy Land
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So let me get this straight: Labour, party of the left, seems locked in a loving embrace with that arch-capitalist, Bill Gates, while the Co...
12 January 2007
Xbox 360: the Next Windows PC?
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More evidence of the convergence of PCs and gaming - and from a rather surprising source: In what may prove to be a controversial statement...
08 January 2007
It's Hard to Be Good
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I applaud the way Bill Gates is putting his vast wealth to good use through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, just as I despise the w...
05 December 2006
From O(GL)LPC to O(W)LPC
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An interesting story here: Microsoft wants to make its Windows operating system available on the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) notebook compu...
02 December 2006
Bill Gates's Virtual Wealth
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Here's a very sharp post from Urizenus Sklar, which is a comment on Wagner James Au's post , which in turn was commenting on the ne...
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25 October 2006
NOC, NOC: Who's There?
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To my eternal shame the UK is not exactly at the forefront of free software adoption, not least because Our Glorious Tone seems as dazzled b...
28 September 2006
BBC + MS = DRM?
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Bad, bad BBC : The BBC has signed an agreement with Microsoft to explore ways of developing its digital services. The only thing that Micros...
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