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04 December 2007
Remembering XBRL
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Remember Extensible Business Reporting Language ( XBRL )? I'm one of those sad people that does, from during the dotcom 1.0 heyday of X...
What Does This Mean for NetBeans?
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NetBeans has always been something of a mystery to me. I'd always regarded it as the runner-up IDE for Java, after Eclipse. But it'...
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Copying Patent Stupidity
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I thought patents were supposed to stop copying, and yet here we have the European Union trying to copy an American idea that has led almos...
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Mobile 2.0? I Hope Not....
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Fabrizio Capobianco reckons today is a frabjous day : 1&1, the largest web hoster in the world, went live with a mobile email solution l...
Wikipedia, Terrorism and the Sunlight of Openness
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If this is all true, things are obviously going from bad to worse at Wikipedia: Controversy has erupted among the encyclopedia's core c...
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MPAA: The Biter Bit
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Although I am a frequent critic of the more outrageous excesses of copyright, I don't deny it has its place, in moderation. For example...
03 December 2007
Perens Goes Peripatetic
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Bruce Perens has achieved the remarkable feat of being one of the leading figures in the open source world without ever becoming a fixture ...
Eben on Software Ecology
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Eben Moglen is probably the most fluent and engaging speaker it has ever been my privilege to interview ; proof of his enduring appeal can b...
Slaying the Author-Side Fees Dragon
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There is some long-living FUD abroad in the open access world: that the only way OA journals work is by charging authors - the "author-...
Stallman's Symbolic Victory
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Slashdot points to an interesting list of first 100 registered domains. But I doubt whether even the most deep-dyed supporter of free sof...
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Will Microsoft Ever Learn This Trick Doesn't Work?
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When you read this : Perhaps more important than the overall numbers is the positive impact IE7 has made for our users. As you know, we focu...
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A Question of Open Chemistry
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I've written about open science and open notebook science before, but here's an excellent round-up of open chemistry: The next gene...
Don't Steal This Book, Michael
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The Kindle is a breakthrough device, in many ways analogous to the first iPod. Just as the iPod brought MP3 players to the masses, the Kindl...
Wikipedia Pays the Price
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News that Wikipedia is to start paying illustrators might come as a shock to some: The foundation that runs Wikipedia has finally agreed to...
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02 December 2007
Good News out of Africa
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Talking of trees , and preserving them, here's some unwonted good news from a country that sadly seems not to be awash in it: The Bonob...
The Joy of Ratchetlessness
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Irrespective of the relative merits of free and proprietary software, there is one aspect where free software wins hands down. Proprietary ...
Why I (Heart) Trees
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I've expressed my undying love for trees before, particularly as a way of preserving our atmospheric commons, but I had no idea that th...
Closing the Open Content Schism
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Nowadays we are used to content being released under a Creative Commons licence, which has become the kind of de facto free licence for con...
Badgeware Comes in from the Cold
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Has badgeware - software whose licences requires attribution to be displayed in all copies - gone legit? Roberto Galoppini seems to think ...
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30 November 2007
The Cape Town Open Education Declaration
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Just as the Budapest Open Access initiative was a defining moment for open access, so the Cape Town Open Education Declaration promises to...
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The Virtues of PatientOS
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It used to be a truism that the open source development methodology would only work for mainstream projects. Only for areas of interest to ...
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Trumping Intellectual Monopolies
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Some misguided people seem to think that intellectual monopolies are "sacred" - probably because they insist on calling them "...
29 November 2007
Grizzly Bears with Chainsaws for Hands
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That's the creators of the Internet, in case you were wondering. (Via Boing Boing .)
Giving "Eye-Pea" the Heave-Ho
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Regular readers of this blog will know that I am not over-enamoured of the term "intellectual property", and feel the need to prot...
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Where Are With Open Source in Europe?
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Given its non-standard nature, free software is particularly hard to pin down in terms of the bare facts about its development and deploymen...
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