04 February 2008

How to Win Enemies and Lose Influence

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Ever wonder what happened to Alexander Ponosov, the headmaster charged with using illegal copies of Microsoft software in Russia? Alexander ...

Community Managers Become More Common

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On Open Enterprise blog .

Apache on the Up

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Not much, mind you, but given that I commented when it was on the way down, it's only fair to point out moves in the other direction: A...

Linus on the Desktop

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On Open Enterprise blog .

Is Sarko Uxorious?

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You can't help wondering whether Sarkozy's chanteuse missus had something to do with this one : Taking a position contrary to that o...
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The Power of the Boycott

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One of the surprising things about the Internet is the power of public opinion. Time and again, things have happened - or rather, been made...
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03 February 2008

Softver Otvorenog Koda na Srpskom

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Or, put another way : The Serbian Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society organized the localization of several popular open ...
02 February 2008

Kevin Kelly Joins the Club

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Nothing new here for readers of this blog, but good to see someone else saying it: the previous round of wealth in this economy was built on...
01 February 2008

Auntie Throws Us a Crumb

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The BBC has finally made the download version of its iPlayer on-demand TV service compatible with Firefox, after six months as an Internet E...
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MS-Yow!, not MS-Yahoo! for Open Source

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The Microsoft-Yahoo merger meme has been out and about for ages. It's not hard to see why Microsoft finally decided to jump : the decl...
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Knock, Knock, Nokia

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Here's some good news : A company backed by hedge fund and private equity company Fortress Investment Group has filed a lawsuit against ...
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31 January 2008

Why Developing Nations Love Free Software

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How about for these reasons ? - In Georgia, most library management systems are available in English or Russian… any student of eastern Euro...

Amazing Mozilla Metrics

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Much of the power and popularity of Firefox and, to a lesser extent, Thunderbird, come from their addons. This shows just how powerful and...

Good Bill, Bad Bill, and The Art of Philanthropy

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On Linux Journal .

Enclosing the Language Commons

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One of the many arguments against patenting software is that it's as stupid as copyrighting language: if you did that, nobody could talk...
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Those Altruistic Aussies

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Despite frequent speculation that corporate financing is dangerous to the ethos of the open source software (OSS) community, most Australian...
30 January 2008

Eee – That's Clever

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On Open Enterprise blog .

I've Been Banned - by Volvo

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Apparently : When I was at Volvo IT (my former employee until 2000) for a meeting today, it became sadly clear that Volvo IT have entered fu...
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29 January 2008

OSA Goes Euro

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On Open Enterprise blog .

Yes, But What About the Uighurs?

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I'm a big fan of all things Turkic, so I was interested in this post exploring the scale of Turkish online activity, especially in the ...

Avoiding the Microsoft Tax

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In the UK , at least....

Open Media Definitions

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Definitions matter. If you want to see why, compare the worlds of open source and open access. The very specific definition of what is ope...
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Open Enterprise Interview: Jono Bacon

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On Open Enterprise blog .

Deciphering OCR Cuneiform

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One area of weakness for open source is OCR, so news that OCR Cuneiform is available now as freeware, and will be released as open source...

"Various Forms of Coercion" for ID Cards an "Option"

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This is one of the most despicable documents from the UK Government it has been my misfortune to read. Ostensibly, it is an objective ...