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11 April 2012
Another Billion-Dollar Open Source Company: Instagram
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Earlier this week I wrote about the first company based on open source to reach a turnover of one billion dollars. But of course, there...
Red Hat's Billion Dollars And the Power of Free
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Recently, there was some justified excitement that Red Hat had finally done it, and turned in annual sales of over $1 billion . A couple o...
02 February 2012
The End Of The Global Internet? Google's Blogger Starts Using Country-Specific Domains To Permit Local Censorship
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Twitter has taken quite a lot of heat for putting in place the capability to block tweets on a geographical basis. This begins to look ...
31 January 2012
Pandora's Box 2.0: Opening proprietary code
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Open source lies at the heart of Google – it runs a modified form of Linux on its vast server farms, and uses many other free software pr...
13 January 2012
Indian Judge Tells Google And Facebook To 'Check And Remove Objectionable Material' Or Be Blocked
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A few weeks back, Techdirt reported on an Indian minister asking Internet companies to do the impossible: On Techdirt .
21 December 2011
BT Joins the Patent Hall of Shame
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Those with good memories may recall the following amusing episode when BT wanted to sue people for daring to use its super-duper patented h...
14 November 2011
Why Barnes & Noble is an Open Source Superstar
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As I've noted many times, one of the biggest threats hanging over open source is patents, because of the way trivial but indispensable...
10 November 2011
Is Google Losing it?
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Google matters for open source. First and foremost, it is an example of a multi-billion dollar global company that simply would not be po...
21 October 2011
Hint: If You Commit A Crime, Do Not Google Every Aspect Of It Afterwards
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Techdirt has reported on a number people accused of murder googling for things like " neck snap break " or " how to commit m...
31 August 2011
Welcome to Moody's Microblog Daily Digest
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I joined Twitter on 1st January 2010 as an experiment. I wanted to see whether this trendy thing had any real merit, or was simply the late...
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17 August 2011
What Does Motoroogle Mean?
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I am really quite relieved Google is trying to acquire Motorola Mobility. Not because I think it will solve all the problems of Android - it...
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15 August 2011
Rotten to the Core
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Back in April, when Apple sued Samsung in the US, I noted that Apple's claims seemed pretty over the top - basically claiming that any r...
28 July 2011
Not So Fast, FAST
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FAST - "Federation Against Software Theft" - is manifestly one of the more risible copyright organisations, since it doesn't e...
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25 July 2011
Time to Break up Big, Bad Apple?
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One of the unusual characteristics of the computer industry in recent years is the rapid rise of companies to almost complete market dominan...
20 July 2011
Myhrvold Hoist By His Own (Patented) Petard
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There's a column doing the rounds at the moment that is generating some interest. It comes from the King of the Patent Trolls, Nathan ...
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27 June 2011
The Failed Experiment of Software Patents
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I've noted before that we are witnessing a classic patent thicket in the realm of smartphones, with everyone and his or her dog suing ev...
20 June 2011
British Library Encloses the Public Domain
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There's considerable excitement about an announcement from the British Library and Google detailing a wonderful gift to the world: The ...
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14 June 2011
Software Patents: Do as You Would be Done By
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I've written plenty about why software patents should be resisted where they don't exist, and abolished where they do. But if I want...
30 May 2011
The Guardian: Yes, but of What?
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I wrote last week about a curious article in the Guardian calling for “caution” on open source. And now we have another odd piece: The sad t...
26 May 2011
Time for Amazon to Pay its dues to Open Source?
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It's nearly summertime. How do I know? Not, of course, by looking at the iffy British weather outside, but because Google's Summer o...
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