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23 April 2009
Tropical Disease Initiative Releases Kernel
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No, really : There is an urgent need for identifying new targets for drug discovery. This urgency is even more relevant for infectious disea...
Who Owns Commercial Open Source – and Can Forks Work?
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Three years ago, Tom Foremski wrote an interesting piece called “Adapt or die--the choice facing the open source movement“, which began: Can...
22 April 2009
EU on ACTA: "TRIPS Is Floor Not Ceiling"
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Getting information about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is like getting blood from a stone, but here's an article with some u...
MEPs: Do not Enclose the Cultural Commons
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Nicely put by the Open Rights Group: Wednesday is the last full day to lobby your MEPs in Strasbourg before this Thursday’s vote on copyrig...
A Timeline of Microsoft Hurt
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I've often written about particular instances where Microsoft has bullied competitors; it's a pretty sorry tale. But that story bec...
Battle for the Soul of the European Internet
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Even though the internet is 40 years old, and the Web 20, it's only in the last couple of years that European politicians have started t...
21 April 2009
Internet Censorship, Salami-style
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This is bad news: Mobile operators will appoint an independent classification body (see Glossary) to provide a framework for classifying co...
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20 April 2009
Urgent: Please Write to your MEPs about Amendment 138
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Sorry, it's time to get those virtual quills out, and to write to your MEPs . There's a crucial vote coming up in the next couple o...
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Another Reason Copyright is Evil
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Usually, I attack copyright on very general grounds - it's a monopoly, it's locking up knowledge, blah-blah-blah. But here's a ...
Don't Do as I Do, Do as I Say
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Wasn't Damian Green threatened with life imprisonment for allegedly doing precisely this : Government officials handed confidential pol...
Rufus Pollock On Copyright and its Sorrows
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Brilliant, succinct post by Rufus Pollock explaining what copyright is supposed to be doing (if it's doing anything): copyright is inst...
What are the Legal Implications of Cloud Computing?
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To say that cloud computing is trendy would be an understatement: the topic is almost inescapable in the world of computing these days. I...
17 April 2009
Copyright Industries' Pyrrhic Victories
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It's extraordinary how much that formerly-drab old subject of copyright is in the news these days. There's the Amazon Kindle story...
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Of RMS, Ethical Visions, and Copyright Law
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As RMS emphasises again and again, at the heart of free software lies an ethical vision of sharing and mutual respect. Although open source...
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16 April 2009
Is RMS Entering the Fray Again?
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The influence of RMS on the world of free software and beyond is, of course, immense. But sometimes his presence is more symbolic than real...
15 April 2009
Goodbye WIPO, Hello ACTA?
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Something strange is happening at the WIPO: it's becoming more reasonable. Where once it was a bastion of intellectual monopoly intransi...
The Value of Sharing
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Yesterday I wrote about how the media industries abuse language in order to justify their broken business models; today I'd like to comp...
RMS on Amazon's "Swindle"
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As you've probably seen, there is concern over Amazon's plans to pull the text-to-voice capability of the Kindle e-book reader, beca...
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14 April 2009
Up Next for UK: Ban on Photos of CCTVs?
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This is too rich: The man probing police conduct over the death of a newspaper seller during the G20 protests was wrong to claim there were...
Channelling the Power of Open Source
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This blog tends to concentrate on two broad aspects of open source: the issues that affect enterprise users, and the companies based around ...
Let's Drop this Insulting “Digital Piracy” Meme
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Until recently, piracy referred to the lawless times and characters of the 17th and 18th centuries – or, if closer to the present, to artful...
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13 April 2009
Of Bruce's Law and Derek's Corollary
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Much will be written about the events of the last few days concerning the leaked Labour emails , and the plans to create a scurrilous blog. ...
Why, Actually, Are They Hiding ACTA?
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One of the curious aspects of articles and posts about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is that it's all a kind of journal...
Mikeyy Update
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OK, I seem to have regained control of my Twitter homepage, and cleared out the infection. But you might want to (a) be sceptical about it ...
Urgent: Do *Not* Vist My Twitter Page
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My Twitter account has become infected with Mikeyy - ironically because I was checking out whether to block a new follower. Please ignore a...
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