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11 August 2006
OpenCyc: Wikipedia with Intelligence
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One of the long-held dreams of computer science is to create systems that "understand" the world in some sense. That is, they can...
10 August 2006
TRIPS Tripped up by Doha?
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Here's a hopeful analysis . It concerns the pernicious Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement, which i...
Wikimanifold
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Say "Wikipedia", and you probably think of an almost ungraspable quantity of undifferentiated text, but it's much more than th...
What's New at Ubuntu
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You don't have to be Nostradamus to predict that Ubuntu is well on the way to joining the front rank of distros, along with Red Hat and ...
Eclipse Becomes Even Healthier
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I've written elsewhere about the stunning rise of Eclipse . The news that IBM, the original donor of code, has given some more softwa...
09 August 2006
Wizard Idea, Wirzenius
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Lars Wirzenius is not as well known a he should be, for he more than anyone was both witness and midwife to the birth of Linux. Along the w...
Another Boring Open Source Success. Yawn.
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So the open IP telephony company Digium scores $13.8 million in VC dosh. Yawn. What's most amazing about this announcement is how ext...
The Price of Everything, the Value of Nothing
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One of the reasons it took a while for people to accept free software is that there is a traditional diffidence in the face of things that a...
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Mooch Ado About Something
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You can tell its Bubble Time when people start companies based on permutations of other, already-successful concepts. Sites like eHub are ...
Will Zhong Guo Kill Eye Pea?
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Intellectual monopolies only work if everyone agrees to play the game. According to this piece , the Chinese don't: "They don'...
It's a Hit
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I know little about baseball (or, indeed, any other sport), and care even less. But this Techdirt story about baseball statistics has som...
08 August 2006
Something Rotten in the State?
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Far be it from me to read too much into a piece of ego-bloggery, but there are some very interesting hints in this exit piece from a soon-t...
The Double Bind of the Commons
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User-generated content is cool, so big media wants to co-opt it; user-generated content cares little for copyright laws, so big media wants ...
UN Calls for ODF in Asia
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The ever-alert Erwin has spotted another push for ODF, this time from the UN's International Open Source Network , and aimed Asia-ward...
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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Matt Asay has an excellent riposte to a singularly wrong-headed post entitled "Open source won't doom traditional enterprise soft...
When Elephant Seals Collide
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You can't beat a legal battle involving two overlapping pieces of legislation. The sight of lawyers having at each other, secure in the...
Reasons Not to Use Closed Source: No. 471
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I've written a couple of times about cases that demonstrate graphically why closed source software is a Bad Thing, but even they pale ...
Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself
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One of the tensions that emerges from time to time in this blog is that between openness and security. In the current climate of the so-cal...
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Microsoft's Gift to Firefox
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Firefox has been incredibly lucky. It has taken Microsoft an extraordinary amount of time to face up to the challenge this free browser rep...
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Capillary Growth
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I see my old chums at OSS Watch have come out with a survey of open source use in higher and further education institutes in the UK, and i...
07 August 2006
Turning Back Genomic Time
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Bioinformatics allows all kinds of information to be gleaned about the gradual evolution of genomes. For example, it is clear that many gen...
There's No FUD Like an Old FUD
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As readers of these posts may know, I am something of a connoisseur of Microsoft's FUD. So I was interested to come across what looked...
Wales's World-Wide Wikia
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I wrote about Wikia when it was launched a while back. Now we have WorldWiki , a fairly obvious application of wikis to travel guides - wi...
Blogging the Bloggable
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No one has a better bird's eye view of the blogosphere than Dave Sifry , which means that his quarterly report on the same is unmissabl...
Resolving the Free Content Licence Madness
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Although the most famous example of free content is Wikipedia, it is unusual in that it uses the GNU Free Documentation Licence , rather tha...
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