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16 June 2011
Of Open Source and Open Innovation
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Last week I wrote about a talk I gave with the title “Innovation inducement prizes as a possible mechanism to unlock the benefits of open in...
15 June 2011
US Abuses Copyright and Extradition Law: UK Acquiesces
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If you want a vision of the world of global repression and bullying that copyright maximalists are striving to create, try this: A Sheffield...
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14 June 2011
Software Patents: Do as You Would be Done By
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I've written plenty about why software patents should be resisted where they don't exist, and abolished where they do. But if I want...
13 June 2011
Do We Still Need the FSF, GNU and GPL?
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It's easy to take things for granted – to assume that the world will always be as it is. And then sometimes you receive a mild jolt: som...
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10 June 2011
Interoperability and Open Standards: Help Make It Happen
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In a previous column, I mentioned that I was invited to talk at a meeting at the European Parliament about innovation prizes last week. That...
07 June 2011
Good Apple, Bad Apple
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Since Apple has replaced Microsoft as the leading patent-wielding cheerleader for closed-source computing, it will come as no surprise that ...
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06 June 2011
The Great Prize: Innovating Without Monopolies
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Last week I was in Brussels, talking at the European Parliament - not, I hasten to add, talking to the Parliament. This was a more intimate ...
Back to Back-to-Back Bach
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Here's some good news : You can download for free the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach. They were recorded by Dr. James Kib...
02 June 2011
The Real Legacy of the Hargreaves Report?
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Now that the dust has settled a little on the Hargreaves report, I thought it might be worth revisiting it, but looking at it from a slightl...
30 May 2011
The Guardian: Yes, but of What?
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I wrote last week about a curious article in the Guardian calling for “caution” on open source. And now we have another odd piece: The sad t...
27 May 2011
Now is the Summer of Our Discontent
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Google's Summer of Code has been running for a few years now, and is an established and important fixture for the free software world: S...
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Will Apple Redeem Piracy?
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One of the central arguments I and others make is that piracy is actually *good* for media producers in all sorts of ways (there lots of lin...
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26 May 2011
Time for Amazon to Pay its dues to Open Source?
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It's nearly summertime. How do I know? Not, of course, by looking at the iffy British weather outside, but because Google's Summer o...
25 May 2011
Peer to Patent in the UK: Worth a Punt?
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As I've written too many times, software patents make no sense for lots of reasons. Although rather more circumspect than me in its phra...
23 May 2011
Caution on that "Call for Caution on Open Source"
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The Guardian has published a very curious piece today, entitled: “A Call for Caution on Open Source”. It concludes: The UK coalition governm...
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19 May 2011
World Copyright Summit: 7 Billion Elephants
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In a couple of weeks' time, the World Copyright Summit takes place in Brussels: Creating value in the digital economy The World Copyrig...
18 May 2011
Hargreaves Report: Patently Sensible Stuff
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It's a measure of how central traditionally dry-as-dust subjects like copyright and patents have become to the modern (digital) world th...
16 May 2011
Re-using PCs: Remploy's Radical Route
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One of the problems with the rapid pace of development in the world of computers is that the latter become out of date and slightly slow com...
Self-Perpetuating Copyright Enforcement
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One of the most powerful emotional tricks used by the copyright industry against those seeking to reduce the term and reach of copyright to ...
12 May 2011
Spain: America's Trojan Horse?
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Techdirt had an interesting, if depressing, story the other day: according to reports about some of the latest Wikileaks State Department ...
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BSA 2010 Piracy Report: Big Numbers, Big Flaws
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In the digital world, it seems, there are two certainties: that every year the Business Software Alliance will put out a report that claims ...
Skype-ing Out an Open Source Future
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You may remember a legacy company from a few years back – used to be very big in old market segments like the desktop, but never managed to ...
09 May 2011
As British as Raspberry Pi?
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There's been a lot of chatter about Apple possibly switching to ARM chips for its laptops and even its desktops. Whether or not that is ...
Portugal to Make CC Licences Illegal?
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I recently wrote about the suggestion that a "Great Firewall of Europe" should be created - a fine example of political cluelessn...
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08 May 2011
Another Business Model for Art: eBay
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One of the things that I and others like to emphasise is that investigating new business models is crucial for the survival of art, artists ...
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