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27 May 2009
Why Windows Netbooks are good for Open Source
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Here's an excellent point : Even Windows-based netbooks are good news for open source, though. Firefox is pre-loaded on the millions of ...
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Is it Possible for the Chinese *Truly* to Twitter?
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Here's something that has always struck me about Twittering in Chinese: a Chinese tweet can have three times the volume of an English t...
26 May 2009
Speak up for the Speaker's Principles
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In the past, I've frequently asked you write a letter to your MP or MEPs about issues that relate to technical issues around open source...
The Internet's Infinite Exploitation
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Talk about opening your mouth and putting your foot in it.... Here's Michael Lynton, Chairman and CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment - yes...
Microsoft Makes Itself at Home in Transylvania
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In what is perhaps a sign of desperation, Microsoft is really pushing governments around the world to sign up to el cheapo mega-deals that t...
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RIAA Fines: Not so Fine
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Yesterday I told the story of RMS and his magic bread, and what it taught us about sharing; here's the negative corollary, courtesy of ...
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25 May 2009
RMS and His Magic Bread
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One of the reasons I admire RMS is because of his complete integrity and consistency. He simply will not compromise on his principles, even...
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22 May 2009
Should OQO Have Chosen GNU/Linux?
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Remember OQO ? It was a really innovative machine, well ahead of its time. Essentially it was a netbook before they existed, but it made ...
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How Open Access Beat the Inquisition
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One of the reasons the idea of open access is so powerful is that it plugs straight into the basis of science: that results and methodology ...
The Free Software Pact
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As regular readers of these posts will have noticed, political issues are starting to impinge more and more on the world of free software an...
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Open Source Consolidation: Less is More?
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The open source startup scene is certainly very vibrant, but it's also clearly still relatively immature. Company histories are short, a...
21 May 2009
Intellectual Monopolies Kill: Two Examples
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One of the reasons I object to the term "intellectual property" is that its cuddly familiarity makes it hard for people to underst...
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Cisco Becomes Infected by the GNU GPL
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When it was first announced that the FSF had filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cisco, some were predicting that this was going ...
Firefox *Finally* Straps on the Extension Jetpack
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One of the most frustrating things about free software is that it frequently fails to build on its strengths beyond its code-base. This is p...
GNU/Linux's Secret Weapon: USB Drives
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I've always been a huge fan of live CDs/DVDs: effectively, they let you try out distros before you install them - and try out multiple o...
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20 May 2009
Norwegian National Library Inches Forward
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Here's an interesting experiment that shows the way for all national libraries: Kopinor and the National Library of Norway signed a con...
Opening Up in the Netherlands
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It's really heartening to see this openness/transparency meme blooming everywhere. But the forces of ignorance are fighting a rearguard...
Nobody Buying Windows XO Laptops?
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One of the most vexed questions at the moment is the state of the netbook market. What are the returns for GNU/Linux-based systems? And is...
Newham and the Prisoner's Dilemma
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Yesterday I had another meeting with Richard Steel, CIO of Newham, who was generous with both his time and information. After our introducto...
Making an Ars Technica of Itself
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This review of "Burning the Ships" is perhaps the most clueless thing I've ever read on Ars Technica : Phelps' point thro...
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19 May 2009
Move over Jefferson, St. Augustine's Hot Now
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One of the favourite passages invoked by people who believe that sharing does not diminish ideas (and by extension digital content) but enha...
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18 May 2009
Transparently Wrong
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At a time when transparency – or lack of it – is in the air, here's another demonstration of how not to do it, this time from the Europe...
Remember What "Patent" Means?
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It means to make clear, or obvious. Like this? 1. A system that facilitates rich interaction with and/or management of environmental compone...
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CCTV is Great - For Car Parks
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One of the Great Lies of the Labour's surveillance society is that being watched - specifically by the greatest concentration of CCTV ca...
17 May 2009
Openists of the World, Unite!
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As I have observed recently (probably ad nauseam for some readers - apologies, but it needs saying), the openness that lies behind open sour...
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