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21 June 2010
Copyright Ratchet, Copyright Racket
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I can't believe this. A few days ago I wrote about the extraordinary extra monopolies the German newspaper industry wanted - including ...
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Globish, Glanglish and Google Translate
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There's a new book out about the rise and use of a globalised English, dubbed " Globish ": Globish is a privatised lingua fran...
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Something in the Air: the Open Source Way
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One of the most vexed questions in climate science is modelling. Much of the time the crucial thing is trying to predict what will happen b...
20 June 2010
Should Retractions be Behind a Paywall?
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"UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim", so proclaimed an article in The Times earlier this year. It began [. pdf ]:...
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Open Source Scientific Publishing
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Since one of the key ideas behind this blog is to explore the application of the open source approach to other fields, I was naturally rathe...
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19 June 2010
Open Source: A Question of Evolution
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I met Matt Ridley once, when he was at The Economist , and I wrote a piece for him (I didn't repeat the experience because their fees at...
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18 June 2010
German Publishers Want More Monopoly Rights
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Here's an almost unbelievable piece about what's happening in Germany right now: It looks as if publishers might really be lobbying...
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EU's Standard Failure on Standards
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Let's be frank: standards are pretty dull; but they are also important as technological gatekeepers. As the shameful OOXML saga showed,...
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Can You Make Money from Free Stuff?
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Well, of course you can – free software is the primary demonstration of that. But that doesn't mean it's trivial to turn free into f...
17 June 2010
Red Letter Day for ACTA in EU: Let's Use It
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This week is one of the magic " plenary " ones in the European Parliament: Only during the plenary weeks of June 14-17 and July 5...
15 June 2010
Are Software Patents Patently Dangerous Enough?
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Earlier this week I wrote about a useful study of the economics of copyright, pointing out that we need more such analyses in order to adopt...
14 June 2010
Shame on Ofcom, Double Shame on the BBC
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Readers with good memories may recall a little kerfuffle over an Ofcom consultation to slap DRM on the BBC's HD service: if this scheme ...
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Abundance Obsoletes Peer Review, so Drop It
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Recently, I had the pleasure of finally meeting Cameron Neylon , probably the leading - and certainly most articulate - exponent of open sci...
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The Economics of Copyright
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One of the problems with the debate around copyright is that it is often fuelled more by feelings than facts. What is sorely lacking is a ha...
11 June 2010
Why GNU/Linux is Unmatched – and Unmatchable
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Users of free software are nothing if not passionate. Most of them care deeply about the code they use, and will happily plunge into the fla...
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Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies?
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Last week, I met up with Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's CEO. He gave a very fluent presentation to a group of journalists that ran through Re...
07 June 2010
Why the iPhone Cannot Keep up with Android
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Although I have never owned an iPhone, nor even desired one, I do recognise that it has redefined the world of smartphones. In that sense, ...
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Grokking Green IT - and why Open Source Helps
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One of the pardoxes at the heart of computing is that for all its power to improve the world, in one respect it is doing the opposite, thank...
06 June 2010
Why Sharing Will Be Big Business
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As you may have noticed, one of the central themes of this blog is the power of sharing. Mostly, I talk about non-rivalrous goods like soft...
05 June 2010
What's the Point of Hacktivism?
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Thanks to the Internet, it's easy to engage in big issues - environmental crises, oppression, injustice. Too easy: all it takes is a cl...
04 June 2010
Please Help Fight EU Search Engine Surveillance
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Just the other day I wrote about the foolishness that was the Gallo Report – which, alas, seems to have gone through with all its excesses. ...
Does the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Get the Web?
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Bill Gates's decision to move away from day-to-day running of Microsoft was doubly shrewd. First, because it allowed him to leave when ...
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03 June 2010
Why Patents are Like Black Holes
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When a big enough star dies, it generally implodes, and forms a voracious black hole capable of swallowing anything that comes too close. W...
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Why "Naked Transparency" Has No Clothes
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Although I have a great deal of time (and respect) for Lawrence Lessig, I think his article "Against Transparency" is fundamental...
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02 June 2010
Open Sourcing Politics
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“Linux is subversive”: so begins “The Cathedral and the Bazaar,” Eric Raymond's analysis of the open source way. The subversion there wa...
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