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15 May 2009
Microsoft's Neo-Colonialism in Africa
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Microsoft is stitching up Africa in the cruellest way: Microsoft is on its way to becoming a dominant brand in Africa, mainly through the d...
"Transparency will Damage Democracy"
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Great to see Heather Brooke getting at least *some* recognition for the huge service she has done transparency in this country by fighting f...
Georgia Learns Why Open Source is Better
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Georgia has some concerns about closed-source code: Kaspersky anti-virus, one of the most popular software programmes worldwide, has unoffi...
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Can the Director of Digital Engagement Open up UK Government?
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Recently, several posts on both of my blogs have been circling around issues of government transparency, especially in the light of the curr...
What is an Open City?
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How do you applies principles of opennes to an entire city? Ask Vancouver, which has posted the following motion on open data, open standa...
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14 May 2009
Is this Cool-er than Amazon's Kindle?
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Amazon's Kindle runs GNU/Linux, which is no surprise given its suitability for these kind of consumer systems. The Kindle is fast establ...
The Common Thread: Open Data, Open Access
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Sir John Sulston is one of this country's - and the world's - heroes. Already a one-time Nobel prize winner for his work on worms (...
13 May 2009
Is Transparency Coming Out into the Open?
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Maybe something good can come out of the unholy mess of the MPs' expenses: Mr Brown said that politicians had to "prove themselves...
Linux.com Gets Community Religion
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It's widely accepted that one of the core engines driving the success of free software is the central role the community has there, be i...
So What's the Net Net on Net Neutrality?
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Viviane seems confused : From the governance point of view "Net Neutrality" is essential. New network management techniques allow ...
12 May 2009
Rumour: Microsoft to Buy SAP?
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I don't normally comment on rumours, but this one is too plausible : Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer on Tuesday said specul...
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11 May 2009
Filtering an Inclusionist Wikipedia
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Why didn't somebody think of this before? Wikipedia for schools is ... a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, t...
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Has HADOPI Driven the French Insane?
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One of the things I have been unable to understand is why the French, well known for their love of liberté, égalité, fraternité and all tha...
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Heather Brooke: Breaking the MPs' Silence
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If any one person deserves credit for bringing openness to MPs' expenses, it is Heather Brooke , who almost single-handedly has fought f...
Open Mapping Considered Harmful
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If you want further proof that openness is inherently subversive, try this : China's Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (BSM) has warned fo...
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Patent Differences: Canonical vs. Microsoft
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I make no apologies for returning to the subject of the European Patent Office's referral of a “point of law” concerning software patent...
09 May 2009
Should Software Developers Be Liable for their Code?
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Should Microsoft pay for the billions of dollars of damage that flaws in its software have caused around the world? It might have to, if a n...
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08 May 2009
Media Vacuums Will Be Filled, Blogs Will Win
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Great point here from Adam Tinworth, about why traditional publishers are suffering so badly at the hands of the bloggers: the new breed of...
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Oh Irony, Thy Name is Westminster
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This is rich : House of Commons officials have today called in the police to hunt down the mole who leaked details of MPs expenses. The parl...
Why We Need Openness, Part 5748
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One of the central themes of this blog is that the openness that powers the continuing rise and success of open source can be applied to mos...
07 May 2009
DNA Database Doublecross
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Oh, look, what a surprise: the UK government's plans implement a European human rights ruling that the "blanket" retention of ...
It's Open, Gov, Honest
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Interesting to see Microsoft jumping on the openness bandwagon again - specifically, on the open government bandwagon: The Open Government ...
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06 May 2009
Not a Sustainable Position
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Somebody clearly doesn't understand open source: Despite a mission to make the games as financially and environmentally sustainable as ...
"Internet Access is a Fundamental Right"
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Not my words, but those of a certain Viviane Reding (NB: MS Word document ): The fourth element I would like to underline is the recognitio...
EPO: FSFE Does It by the Numbers
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Yesterday I was praising Red Hat's submission to the EPO in its pondering of the patentability of software. Today, it's the FSFE...
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