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I was invited to give a talk at two recent conferences, the Berlin Commons Conference , and FSCONS 2010 . It's generally a pleasure to ...

Regular readers of this blog will know that the commons has been a major theme here for some years, since it offers an extremely fruitful wa...

No good deed goes unpunished, they say. A year ago, I wrote the following about the Open Source Jahrbuch series: All-in-all, I'd go s...

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One of the key features of digital commons - like free software or science - is that there is no tragedy in the classical sense: it is impos...

I wrote recently about the tragedy of losing the IMSLM music score commons. Well, it looks like Mr Digital Commons himself, Michael Hart ...