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19 June 2009
Reclaim The Commons: A Manifesto
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As long-suffering readers of this blog will have noticed, I rather like the concept of the commons. As well as being good in itself, it als...
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ODF and the Art of Interoperability
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It's hard to believe that there was such sound and fury when OOXML was being pushed through the ISO process. At the time, it seemed like...
18 June 2009
TACD Fights ACTA on "IPRs"
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One of the frustrating aspects about the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA) is that it is a cosy club of rich and powerful nations plus...
Firefox 3.5: What's in a Number?
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I had an interesting chat this morning with Mike Shaver, VP, Engineering at Mozilla, about the imminent Firefox 3.5. Its launch takes place ...
The Green Intellectual Property Project
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The Green Intellectual Property (GIP) Project aims at greening our society through two activities; * implementing the Green Intellectual...
17 June 2009
Digital Britain, Analogue Thinking
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Clocking in at 238 pages, the final Digital Britain report is an impressive piece of work. It provides a comprehensive survey of how many as...
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The Doctor Who Model of Open Source
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I often write of the way in which other domains are learning from open source and its successes. But that's not to say the traffic is a...
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Open Source in the Enterprise: Safely Boring
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Yesterday I popped into part of the London Open Source Forum. This was a laudable effort organised by Red Hat in conjunction with some of it...
16 June 2009
Behold Opera Unite: the Anti-Cloud
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I have a soft spot for Opera. I've always been a fan of this plucky underdog, ploughing its own furrow, and doing all the other metaphor...
15 June 2009
Mr Luigi Vercotti Goes Digital
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Remember that sketch in Monty Python? Luigi: (looking round office casually) You've ... you've got a nice army base here, Colonel. ...
An Open Letter to Sir Tim about Open Government
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Without doubt, one of the most exciting recent developments in the world of openness has been the sudden fervour with which the British gove...
14 June 2009
US Green Patents vs. Global Climate Commons
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Guess which wins ? Last night the House voted overwhelmingly to establish new U.S. policy that will oppose any global climate change treaty ...
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12 June 2009
Microsoft cocks a snook at the EU
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Whatever you think of the European Commission's investigation of Microsoft for possible anti-competitive behaviour in the browser sector...
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A Drowsy Numbness Pains My Sense
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Here's the good news : Hemlock is a new web development framework, focused on allowing easy development of real-time, many-to-many apps....
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So What Exactly Does Linus Do These Days?
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What do you do when you wrote the kernel of the world's greatest operating system nearly two decades ago? Linus tells us : My real &quo...
11 June 2009
Copyright Industries Very Nearly Get It
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They're getting there: Copyright holders on Wednesday acknowledged they have done a poor job of countering the “anti-copyright” lobby a...
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A Presumption of Openness
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Remarkable : Public bodies should automatically release all information that does not need to stay secret, the information commissioner is e...
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The Source Code of Power
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Tom Watson is that rare thing: a net-savvy MP. So his decision to step down as minister means that our loss is all the greater. Maybe, tho...
10 June 2009
Has HADOPI Had It?
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Well, not quite, but this judgment that its sanctions are unconstitutional certainly punches its teeth out: Le Conseil constitutionnel a ce...
Ecology, Economics, Sharing
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One of the things that interests me at the moment is the way open source ideas are proving hugely useful when considering areas like economi...
SAP: Open Source's Friend or Foe?
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For an outfit that calls itself “the world's largest business software company”, the German software giant SAP is relatively little-know...
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09 June 2009
Do We Need an Apps Store for GNU/Linux?
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Everyone's doing it, so Novell wants to join in : Novell plans to bring the wealth of open-source software to everyday users through an ...
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A Different Point of View on Software Patents
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One of the fears that I and others have voiced is that the European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA) - an attempt to set up a unified Euro...
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Microsoft's Pyrrhic Victory in the Netbook War
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The rise of the netbook has been an extraordinary saga. When the Asus Eee PC was first launched at the end of 2007, it seemed to come from n...
08 June 2009
China's Censorware: What about GNU/Linux?
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News is breaking that the Chinese government will insist on censorware being shipped with all PCs: China plans to require that all personal...
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