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24 July 2014
The Coming Chinese Android Invasion
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Remember all those years ago, when people laughed at the first Android phones (which were, to tell the truth, pretty clunky, but still......
24 November 2013
Towards a Post-H.264 World
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In my post yesterday about Cisco making the code for its H264 codec available, I noted that the really important news was that Mozilla w...
Is Cisco Open-Sourcing its Code - or Openwashing?
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You know that open source has won when everybody wants to wrap themselves in a little bit of openness in order to enjoy the glow. That&...
Of Surveillance Debates and Open Clinical Data
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Revelations about the staggering levels of online surveillance that are now routine in this country have been met with a stunning silence...
Open Clinical Trials: Please Write to Health Minister
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I first wrote about the importance of open clinical trials two years ago. More recently, I urged people to contact their MEP s for a cruc...
Brazil Grapples with the Problem of Software Patents
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Software patents have figured quite frequently on this blog, usually in terms of their deep problems, especially for free software. Alth...
Is Mozilla on the Bridge of Khazad - or on the Fence?
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Last week I explored at some length the curious reasons that Sir Tim Berners-Lee gave for supporting the proposal to add hooks for DRM in...
Linux Foundation Celebrates with a Quadruple Scotch
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My last two posts about the Linux Foundation have been about how it is broadening its scope to embrace open projects well beyond the Linu...
ISDS: ACTA by the Back Door?
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As I noted in my last TTIP update , things are beginning to get moving again on this front. One reflection of the growing interesting in...
Tim Berners-Lee on Why HTML5 "Needs" DRM
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A couple of week ago, I discussed the awful idea of adding DRM to the official HTML5 standard, and where that would lead us. More recent...
TTIP Update III
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It's been fairly quiet on the TAFTA /TTIP front recently. That's largely because Europe shuts down for its summer hols during A...
23 November 2013
The Start of the Counter-Attack Against Hargreaves?
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As I noted a couple of years ago, one of the most important legacies of the Hargreaves review of copyright in the digital age was its in...
Time to Fight Against a DRM'd Web - by Forking It
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At the beginning of the year, I wrote abut a shameful move by the BBC to support adding DRM to HTML to control the playback of video cont...
Richard Stallman on the Painful Birth of GNU
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Earlier this week I posted Richard Stallman's recollections of the AI Lab at MIT, where he first encountered and came to love the h...
Richard Stallman on the Hacker Spirit at MIT
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Last week I noted that the GNU project was celebrating its 30th anniversary. I thought it might be interesting to hear what Richard St...
The Birth of a GNU Era
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Exactly 30 years ago, a hacker posted an unusual message to the net.unix-wizards newsgroup: On Open Enterprise blog .
European Privacy Lost - and How to Get it Back
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At the beginning of this year, I discussed a report written for the European Parliament, which warned that the US legal framework allow...
Android and the Tesco Effect
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When the first Android smartphones came out, the consensus view among certain "experts" was that Google didn't stand chance...
Will CyanogenMod Get the Business Blues?
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Last week, I wrote an article pointing out that the NSA' s assault on cryptography, bad as it was, had a silver lining for open sou...
Linux Foundation on the Foundations of Linux
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One of the many valuable things that come out of the Linux Foundation is an annual review of Linux kernel development. It's just rel...
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