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16 July 2006
The Dangers of Open Content
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Here's a nice story involving Elephant's Dream and Wikipedia - and a reminder that the latter is best regarded as a rough guide or...
15 July 2006
More Microsoftie FUD
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Another comparative " analysis " of security flaws in Windows and Red Hat. The result: Windows is better - the figures prove it. ...
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Wikipeda Does RSS
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I amazed this hasn't been done before: you can now track changes to Wikipedia articles through an RSS feed. If you use Firefox, say, to...
The Value of the Public Domain
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More light reading - this time about the public domain. Or rather, a little beyond the traditional public domain, as the author Rufus Poll...
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Innovation Happens Elsewhere - Online, Too
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Ron Goldman and Richard P. Gabriel have made available an online version of their book Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Busines...
Net Neutrality and Open Spectrum
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David Levine has an interesting post that joins the dots connecting the net neutrality debate with the issue of creating a spectrum commons...
14 July 2006
ODF A.G. (After Google)
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It's curious the low-key way that Google has joined the ODF Alliance. But there's no mistaking the impact and importance of that mo...
Tripped up for Want of a Commons
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I'm not a poddie myself, but the idea behind Griffin Technology's iTrip - being able to broadcast your MP3 files to nearby FM radio...
Microsoft the Translator, Microsoft the Traitor
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Since I sank to the (oceanic) depths of linking to a fisheries story on the basis of an irresistible headline, I don't see why I should...
Making All the Right Connexions
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A couple of months back I had the pleasure of interviewing Richard Baraniuk for an article about open content for LWN.net. As I wrote then...
Why Hackers Do It
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If you've ever wondered what makes hackers (not crackers) tick, you can relax: somebody has now submitted a doctoral thesis on the subj...
PortableApps.com - Open Source on a Stick
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One of the many benefits of open source is that it allows people to experiment. In particular, it lets people try out all sorts of whacky i...
Some Microsofties See the OSS Light
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I don't know whether this is big enough to call a trend yet, but it's striking that several ex-Microsofties are setting up new compa...
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13 July 2006
SAP's Success is Being Sapped
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SAP is a strange company. Largely unknown to the general public (at least outside its native Germany), it is large, and until now, hugely s...
Open Source Evolution
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Carl Zimmer is one of the best science writers around today. He manages to combine technical accuracy with a writing style that never gets ...
EU Software Patents Battle 2.0
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Florian Mueller , who did more than most to rally people against the software patents directive in the European Parliament, has flagged up ...
Moroccan Fisheries Escapes Proprietary Net
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Not my title, I hasten to add (though I wish it had been), but the one used by this article . The latter does what it says on the tin - a s...
Croats Have a Go at...OSS Policy
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It seems that Croatia has joined the Euro-club of OSS enthusiasts. At least that's what I'm told . I really must get around to le...
Towards a Wikipedia Done Properly
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Larry Sanger's name has cropped up several times on this blog, so I was delighted to interview him recently for The Guardian . You c...
A Study in Official Openness
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It is probably hard for those outside the UK to appreciate the extent of the secrecy that has pervaded public life here for centuries. The ...
12 July 2006
Of FAQs and NAQs
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FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions - are one of the characteristic concepts of the online world, born, presumably, of a cheery belief that i...
Why Microsoft Got Thwacked
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If you were wondering what exactly the sticking point was that led to Microsoft getting thumped by the European Union, here's a helpful ...
Open Access...to Search Spam
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Open access is usually about being able to read high-value texts that are normally only available for a correspondingly high fee. But, in r...
OpenDocument Fellowship Rings the Changes
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ODF just goes from strength to strength, as many posts on this blog attest. One of the main organisations pushing the standard is the splen...
11 July 2006
Of Sakai and Moodle
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Sakai may not be a name that is known to many in the world of free software, but it's one of the leading open source projects in the fi...
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