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06 May 2009
Forking Nagios: Behold Icinga
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One of the unique features of free software is that it can be forked. Indeed, it is one of the most powerful incentives for projects to hew ...
Malcolm Harbour Doesn't Get Net Neutrality
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It seems that one of the main architects of the disgrace that is the Telecoms Package is the UK MEP Malcolm Harbour. Here's an indicati...
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ID Cards Get Idiotically Insecure
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Remember how those magic ID cards would provide strong forms of identity, thus protecting us against terrorists, people traffickers et al.? ...
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What Happens if Microsoft Buys Twitter?
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Here's a nasty meme that's beginning to swirl around: Microsoft (MSFT) is about to finally consummate a search deal with Yahoo -- a...
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05 May 2009
Letting Go is Hard to Do
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A few weeks ago, Leo Babauta published a great post entitled "Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (or, the Privatization of the English Lan...
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Red Hat Makes its Position Patent
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Six months ago I noted that the European Patent Office had embarked upon a fairly abstruse process.... On Open Enterprise blog .
Last Chance to Save the European Internet
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Believe it or not, this saga isn't over, and things are going badly again. The Open Rights Group has a good detailed summary of what...
04 May 2009
Another Reason We Need Open Access
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One of the more laughable reasons that traditional science publishers cite in their attempts to rubbish open access is that it's somehow...
02 May 2009
Swine Flu in the Nude
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This is what the virus really looks like: 1 atgaaggcaa tactagtagt tctgctatat acatttgcaa ccgcaaatgc agacacatta 61 tgtataggtt ...
Why I Blog and Twitter
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A question that often comes up is why people blog and twitter. I've given various answers over the years, but once again Mike Masnick s...
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01 May 2009
Why Pig Flu is Better than Bird Flu: Open Data
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As I wrote two years ago, one of the most worrying aspects of bird flu (remember that?) was that virus sequences were not being shared well...
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The Shame in Spain
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I've written a number of times about Spain's use of free software, notably at the provincial level. There's even a handy - if r...
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The Sad Intellectual Monopolist's Viewpoint
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If you want to see how misguided the British publishing industry's attitudes are to copyright and its users, you could do worse than rea...
30 April 2009
Spreading Government Openness
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For those of us that believe that openness is good for governments (and good for us), the question becomes: how can we encourage government ...
The Tibetans' Secret Weapon: Openness
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I came across this fascinating piece about how the Tibetan exile community not only keeps going in the face of China's unbending occupa...
P2P is Political
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Richard Stallman has always regarded free software as about freedom, and hence inherently political. And so it's no surprise that many ...
Whatever Happened to OOXML?
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Remember Open Office XML – a name chosen to be as confusingly close to OpenOffice XML as possible – better known as OOXML? Remember how just...
Patent Nonsense in Europe
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Here's some interesting news on the European patent front: Preliminary figures from the European Patent Office (EPO) reveal that the nu...
29 April 2009
The Retreat from ID Cards Has Begun
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This is significant : Senior cabinet ministers are privately discussing a plan to scrap the Government's £5bn identity cards programme a...
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Towards Transparency for Europe
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Regular readers of this blog will have spotted that I've been posting more about transparency recently. Of course, it's a natural e...
Newly in Newham
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Those with good memories may recall that Richard Steel and I had something of a, er, discussion about open source in our respective blogs. T...
Oi, OIN: What Took So Long?
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When the Open Innovation Network announced that TomTom was joining, just after Microsoft accused the latter of infringing patents related t...
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Foolish Phorm
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Earlier this year, I had some problems with a statement from the Open Solution Alliance's Anthony Gold. Here are my comments from the ti...
27 April 2009
The Closing the European Internet
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Openness lies at the heart of the Internet, at every level. Indeed, the success of the Internet, and of the open services that run on top of...
24 April 2009
Taiwan Adopts "Three Strikes" Law
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Bad news , bad law: The Legislative Yuan ratified yesterday the latest revision of the Copyright Law to empower Internet service providers (...
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