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04 June 2006
Why Microsoft is Doomed, Part 459
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Michael Robertson may not be a well-known name, but he's had a remarkable career. Companies that he's founded include MP3.com, the ...
The Other Singularity
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Most people have come across the idea of the technological singularity , when technology goes through a step-change, and becomes something s...
03 June 2006
Open Access: If Not Now, When?
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Against a background of growing fears of an imminent pandemic triggered by avian 'flu, the announcement that a new journal, Influenza an...
02 June 2006
What Bruce Schneier Didn't Say
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The ever-perceptive Bruce Schneier has another interesting column in Wired . This time he raises the question: Why not make vendors liable...
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MySQL, YourSQL, OurSQL
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The MySQL database is one of the better-kept secrets of the open source world. If you come across it, it's likely to be tucked discre...
Techdirt's Trademark Trenchancy
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With customary insight, Techdirt has cut through some of the nonsense associated with trademarks: It seems that so many trademark holders ...
Open Source Biomedical Research
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I'm always on the look-out for new applications of the open source idea, so I was delighted to come across The Synaptic Link . The name...
Internet Hunting in the Middle Kingdom
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Bizarre social trend in China: is this our future? (via Slashdot .)
Worry, Larry, Worry
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OK, it's a survey by an enterprise open source database company that - surprise, surprise - comes out with the result that oodles of e...
Google's Summer of Code-Love
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I've been a bit ambivalent about Google and open source in the past (because they are). But this year's Summer of Code is startin...
The Font of all Free Beer?
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Normally, I'm more of a free as in freedom man, but I have to say this collection of free as in beer fonts is impressive (all 9,800 of ...
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Digg these Groovy CC Hits, Man
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A brilliantly obvious - and obviously brilliant idea: combine Digg with CC music to create a user-generated hit parade . Note, too, that yo...
TCOs: Get the Other "Facts"
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I'm not a big fan of TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) studies. Their methodology is often dubious in the extreme: frequently, figures are ...
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01 June 2006
Economics, Not Supersize
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This article points out an interesting aspect of personal gluttony: that you actually lose, rather than save money, by choosing "super...
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Slashdotting the i's, Slashcrossing the t's
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Far be it from me to slag off a fellow journo who probably had tight deadlines to deliver some tendentious copy, but this column is really ...
Vive La France! Vive L'ODF!
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As this post emphasises , they're only asking for comments at the moment - no decision has been made. But simply the idea that part of ...
Microsoft "Borrows" OSS Security Approach
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According to the story : Microsoft is taking a page out of the open-source community's book where it comes to security. In Windows Vista...
OA Un-Wired
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There's a piece in this month's Wired about Harold Varmus. It begins Last night, Harold Varmus appeared to me in a dream. Dressed...
Web Zwei Punkt Null
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The old Web 2.0 meme is usually presented in American (and anglophone) terms, so it's good to find a whole series of interviews with Ge...
Think of the Children - Or Just Think
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This would be funny if it weren't atrocious. The idea of presenting copyright dogma without any sense of balance - for example of copy...
Red Hat's Mugshot
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So, Red Hat is working on a trendy social networking site, called Mugshot . I can't really tell what on earth this is trying to do - ei...
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No Growser for You
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So Eric Schmidt has stated that there will be no Google browser: did anyone really think there would be? It would be a waste of resources ...
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Blogs? Search Me
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Given the increasingly central role that blogs play in online life, it's curious that the blog search world is so primitive. Certainly,...
Credit Where Credit is Due
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I missed this story earlier, but it's important because it addresses two key issues: deforestation and carbon emissions. Clearly, ince...
OA=OSS, Elsevier=Microsoft
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You know you're on the right track when your enemies start adopting your (much-decried) methods. First there was Microsoft and its &quo...
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