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30 April 2011
Moral Bankruptcy of the Copyright Industry
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As anyone who has followed the area for a while learns, the copyright industry has an extraordinary sense of entitlement. It seems to think...
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29 April 2011
Who Was Really Behind the Digital Economy Act?
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It was just over a year ago that the Digital Economy Act was passed. Of course, the battle to stop this insanity goes on, although the recen...
28 April 2011
Is This the Start of Microsoft Anti-Trust 2.0?
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Although it probably seems like impossibly-distant ancient history to most people now, the Microsoft anti-trust case was pretty exciting stu...
The Not-So-Great Firewall of Europe
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I am staggered by the cluelessness of some politicians [. pdf ]: The Presidency of the LEWP [Law Enforcement Working Party] presented its in...
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Damaging the DNA of Science
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Here's a sad story , but not for the reason you might expect: Developing therapies from human embryonic stem cells is under threat in Eu...
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26 April 2011
Breaking the Monopoly of Celebration
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Today is apparently something called " World Intellectual Property Day ". How bizarre to be celebrating government-backed monopol...
Dell Does it Again
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One of the first PCs that I bought was a Dell. It came with 8 Mbyte of memory, 230 Mbyte hard disc, and cost a mere £1479 (the HP Laserjet I...
25 April 2011
Do Creatorless Creations Deserve Copyright?
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Copyright has its convenient myths. The principal one is that copyright is intellectual *property*, which taps into our natural tendency to...
21 April 2011
Why Time is Patently on Open Source's Side
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So far, I've held off from writing about the proposed sale of 882 Novell patents to a consortium “organised by Microsoft”, since there h...
20 April 2011
How Can Your Content Live After You Die?
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The current computer scene is notable for the role played by user-generated content (UGC): Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube etc. are all d...
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19 April 2011
Of Apple and Android: Running Scared
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The smartphone space is turning into a textbook example of why patents not only do not promote innovation as their supporters claim so insis...
OpenOffice.org: Freedom on a Fork
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Regular readers of this column will know that I'm something of a fan of forks, but even I was surprised when OpenOffice.org was forked b...
18 April 2011
The Perversion of Copyright
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The first copyright law, the Statute of Anne - which definitively moved copyright away from its original roots in state censorship - was : A...
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15 April 2011
Brain Institute's Clever Move
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One of the more unexpected interests of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is the Allen Human Brain Atlas : Using an innovative approach to hum...
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Why Google Should Buy the Music Industry
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Rumours about Google's music service have been swirling for a while now, but they certainly seem to be reaching a new stage with stories...
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Fighting the Copyright Ratchet Racket
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Copyright is nominally a compact between public and creator. A government-backed, time-limited monopoly on their works is offered to artists...
12 April 2011
Why Openness is Inevitable
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As Richard Stallman constantly reminds us, there are strong moral grounds for adopting free software. But whether or not you accept that lin...
11 April 2011
UK Newspapers Confirm Digital Death-Wish
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I thought I had plumbed the depths of the UK newspaper industry's stupidity when it came to digital. The idea that putting up paywalls ...
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Tasting the Delights of OrangeHRM
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Since free software was originally created by hackers for hackers, it's no wonder that the first programs they created were tools - thin...
07 April 2011
So What's Mozilla's Message on Messaging?
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Just over three years ago, Mozilla made an interesting move: Today we’ve announced the launch of Mozilla Messaging, the new name for the ent...
06 April 2011
How Gene Patents Cause Suffering
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Here's a textbook case of how gene patents not only do *not* promote innovation, as is so frequently claimed, but slow it down - and wi...
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EU's New IT "Principles" Show Unprincipled Hypocrisy
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You may remember that there was a big to-do about the European Interoperability Framework, and the definition of “open standards”. The key i...
05 April 2011
Open Source in Good Health and Vice Versa
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Last week I wrote about the UK government's “new” IT strategy, which is designed in part to avoid some of the costly mistakes of the pas...
04 April 2011
Why I Was Wrong about Microsoft
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I have been reporting on Microsoft all my journalistic life, and believe me, that's quite some time. To give you an idea how far I go ba...
01 April 2011
OpenCorporates - Open Database of the Corporate World
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One of the interesting offshoots of open source is open data. It's still very early days, which means that few have started thinking abo...
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