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16 January 2006
OSSS: Open Source Software in Syria
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This story about the use of free software in Syria pairs up nicely with the one about Nigeria I discussed a few days ago. The difference ...
Fighting DRM - Digital Rights Minimisation
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The National Consumer Council sounds like one of those nebulous bodies full of the occasional sound and fury, but signifying not a lot. To ...
Fab Firefox Figures
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The Fox just keeps on flying. Latest figures from the French research company Xiti show that across Europe Firefox now commands 20% of the...
15 January 2006
On Social Bookmarking, Spam - and Steganography
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A fine analysis of the threats posed to social bookmarking sites ( del.icio.us , digg.com etc) from Alex Bosworth. But for me, the real c...
Who Needs Software Patents?
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Not my question, but that of Sir Robin Jacob, a judge at the U.K.'s Court of Appeal who specializes in intellectual-property law, durin...
Oh, the Irony
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It seems a reporter working on a dead-tree newspaper has been dismissed because his Stories contained phrases or sentences that appeared el...
One More Reason for Open Source
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Among the many reasons for choosing open source software, one that is often overlooked is that it is much harder to hide things in code that...
Microsoft's Next Desperation?
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One indication of Microsoft's inability to handle the threat of the free software model is that fact that it keeps changing its strategy...
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12 January 2006
Chile Turns up the Heat on WIPO
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Good to see another country standing up for open content/public domain (via Open Access News ). One of the key issues in tackling the unb...
Thunderbird, Firefox and OpenOffice.org Are Go
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Version 1.5 of the open source email client Thunderbird is now available for download . This is a major release of an important program, ev...
Closing off Microsoft's Patent Options
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Patents are boring - but important. They are the chokepoint for much intellectual activity - especially the kind discussed in these pages -...
11 January 2006
In the Vanguard
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What is exciting about this piece in the Nigerian newspaper Vanguard (link from Open Access News ), is that it puts all the pieces togethe...
Wikipedia,
Science
and Peer Review
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Last week, Wendy Grossman wrote a wise article about how all those making a fuss over Wikipedia's inaccuracies and lack of accountabili...
10 January 2006
Blogs and Open Government
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The indispensable John Lettice (don't miss his repeated skewering of the UK's idiotic ID card plans) makes a nice connection betwe...
Gnashing and Wailing
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The GNU Project is working on a full-featured, completely free, Flash player, called Gnash . I suppose they had to do it, because for them ...
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Open Source's Big Blunder
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It is easy to be fooled by the success of open source software. High-profile applications like Apache and Firefox are routinely cited for t...
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09 January 2006
Closed Source, Open Can of Worms
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This is about openness, oh my word, yes. Great reporting. But rather frightening. Update : no, the link isn't broken, it's been di...
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Google: Friend or Foe?
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" Don't Be Evil " is the company motto: but is Google for us or against us? I'm not talking about justifable concerns that...
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07 January 2006
Not Your Father's/Mother's Tripos
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At Cambridge University, the examinations are known as the Tripos - a reference, it is thought , to the three-legged wooden stool that candi...
A Smidgeon Too Open, Perhaps
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I'm all in favour of openness, but maybe this is taking things a little too far.... More seriously, it does show the tension between op...
Code is Law, Code is Politics
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As Lawrence Lessig famously noted, Code is Law . Which means that Code is Politics, too, since laws are drawn up by politicians. But the ...
06 January 2006
The
BMJ
Evolves towards... the Dark Side
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The British Medical Journal is a fine institution, with a long and glorious history of publishing important medical research. On top of th...
05 January 2006
Open Data - Good; Open Access - Bad?
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Great story in Nature about data mashups - the mixing together of data drawn from disparate sources to create a sum greater than the parts....
He Gets It - But Not What You Think
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The head of Mozilla in Europe, Tristan Nitot , has an interesting post about the French Gendarmerie National switching to both Firefox and ...
03 January 2006
Unhappy New Year, Tibet
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Although open access usually refers to journal papers, there are an increasing number of books freely available too, as a previous post not...
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