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16 August 2010
Oracle Scorns Open Source: How to Respond?
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This was bound to happen, of course. Things were going too well. At a time when Google is activating 200,000 Android phones a day, and Andro...
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13 August 2010
Greed vs. Survival: Which Prevails?
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The global environmental catastrophe that we all face is, of course, a typical tragedy of the (analogue) commons. Resources that are held i...
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11 August 2010
Linux Foundation Makes Enterprise Open Source Boring
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In the early days of free software, the struggle was just to get companies to try this new and rather unconventional approach, without worry...
09 August 2010
The Saga of Git: Lightning does Strike Twice
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Every now and then, a shiver runs through the Linux community as people realise afresh that the entire edifice has a single point of failure...
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The Dead Microsoft Sketch
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The first time I was really impressed by Microsoft was back in the 1980s. I was being given a private demonstration of a hot new program for...
05 August 2010
Is Google About to Sell the Internet Down the River?
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Net neutrality is turning from a boring, irrelevant issue that few people thought about much into one of the key issues for today's Inte...
02 August 2010
El Pueblo Unido...
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Videos are proving to be a key element in ensuring that policing is fair and honest, as recent events in the UK have demonstrated. But ther...
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Can You Make Money from Open Source+Open Data?
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One of the interesting trends over the last few months has been the increasing activity in the field of open data. In the UK, this has been ...
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Firefox Loses Market Share Again: Is That a Problem?
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Understandably, commentators are getting excited over the fact that according to one survey Internet Explorer has gained browser market sha...
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30 July 2010
Towards a Commons Taxonomy
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As regular readers will know, I regard the concept of the commons as an increasingly important one, not least because it pulls together thre...
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29 July 2010
Re-inventing Publishing for the Digital Age
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As a former publisher (no, really) I am fascinated by, and sympathetic to, efforts to come up with new models for profitable publishing in t...
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28 July 2010
Software: What Exactly Can be Copyrighted?
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One of the many arguments against allowing patents for software (alongside the principle argument that software is made up of algorithms, wh...
Will Adobe See the Light (of Day)?
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The content management company Day Software may not be the world's most famous outfit making money from open source – perhaps a functio...
27 July 2010
If Oracle Bought Every Open Source Company...
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Recently, there was an interesting rumour circulating that Oracle had a war chest of some $70 billion, and was going on an acquisition spre...
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23 July 2010
Move Commons: Moving Beyond Creative Commons
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Talking of commons, I was reading David Bollier's Viral Spiral recently, probably the best book about the rise of the commons as a new...
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An Uncommon Commons in Linz
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As its name suggests, a commons is an outgrowth of things held in common, like common land. This has been extended to the digital sphere wi...
Welcome to the Troll Economy
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It began, perhaps, with SCO's insane attempt to obtain money from IBM and others for alleged infringements of its code. It proceeded w...
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Why Free Software is a Matter of Life and Death
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As regular readers of this blog will know, free software has an importance that extends way beyond the world of software. But for most peopl...
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22 July 2010
Openness: Just What the Doctoral Student Ordered
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In 2007 the British Library (BL) and the JISC funded The Google Generation Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future research (C...
21 July 2010
Could You Adopt a Hacking Business Model?
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Once more there is a lot of heated discussion about what constitutes a “real” open source business model – that is, one that remains true to...
China and the Year of the GNU/Linux Desktop
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It's an old joke by now that this year will be the year of the GNU/Linux desktop – just like last year, and the year before that. But no...
19 July 2010
The Real Open Source Hardware Revolution
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I recently wrote about the latest iteration of the Open Source Hardware Definition, which provides a framework for crafting open hardware li...
15 July 2010
Free Access to the Sum of all Human Tarkovsky
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One of the many things I love about Wikipedia is the underlying vision, as articulated by Jimmy Wales: Imagine a world in which every singl...
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Realising the Dream of Open Source Hardware
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The growing success of open source software has naturally spurred on others to apply its lessons elsewhere. Open content is perhaps the most...
14 July 2010
Should the Music Industry Pay ISPs for Piracy?
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In the wake of its “success” in pushing through Digital Economy Act, the British music industry is hoping to move on to the next stage: usin...
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