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11 September 2006
On the Commonality of the Commons
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One of the central themes of this blog is that the opens - open source, open content, open genomics and the rest - share certain key charact...
10 September 2006
On Subtractability and Excludability
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Some more interestingly oblique thoughts on the concept of the commons and the impact of technology thereon.
Linus' Law and International Trade
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If any proof were needed that open source has wide ramifications, consider this : the open source software adage, known as Linus' Law (t...
09 September 2006
Scribing about Scribus
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DTP is not something you normally associate with the world of free software. But there is an open source DTP package, and a damn fine one....
Sorry, Larry...
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...but I can't agree on this one. You write : Check out webcitation.org -- a project run at the University of Toronto. The basic idea i...
08 September 2006
Eclipse Waxes Stronger
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One of the key issues that needed to be addressed in order to promote free software in the early days was support: until mainstream companie...
It's Good to Talk
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Web 2.0 is all about conversations, they say. So clearly what we need is a search engine for conversations. Enter Talk Digger : Talk Digge...
OpenOffice.org Sprouts in Brussels
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According to this story , the finance authorities in Belgium are starting a pilot project using OpenOffice.org instead of Microsoft Office. ...
07 September 2006
People Power 2.0
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One of the great conundrums of the open world is how to make money by giving stuff away. The solution, as far as I can tell, seems to be to...
Microsoft's Cracked Sense of Priorities
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Once again, Bruce is on the money - literally. If you really want to see Microsoft scramble to patch a hole in its software, don't look...
The Semantic Newspaper
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Here's a typically thoughtful meditation from Techdirt that considers ways in which newspapers could usefully embrace not just the Int...
Oooh, Look: MOOXL
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Rob Weir has spotted an interesting fact about Microsoft's implementation of MOOXL compatibility for Office XP, and its relationship to...
06 September 2006
IPv6: You Know It Makes Sense
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The Internet is deeply, deeply broken, it's just that nobody's noticed. Fortunately, the solution is already to hand. Unfortunatel...
NeoOffice 2.0 Beta
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One of the under-appreciated qualities of free software is its cross-platform nature. The fact that Firefox and OpenOffice.org are availabl...
Open Knowledge Definition 1.0...
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... is out .
The Commons of Silence
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Well, who could fail to be intrigued by a posting entitled "Ivan Illich and Silence as a Commons"? Especially when it links to a...
Open Source Robotics Toolkits
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One more for the open source ticklist: robotics toolkits. Here's an article explaining what they do and what's available. (Via LX...
Touchez Pas au Pingouin
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Now here's a daft idea : if Linux wants to be taken seriously by the business desktop market, it has to first take itself more seriously...
Torvalds' New Book on Open Source
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Who better to write a book called Open Life: The Philosophy of Open Source , than Torvalds? And this book is indeed written by Torvalds - S...
Substitutability and Modularity
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Wise words from Bob Sutor on substitutability: the ability to take one software application from one provider and put in its place another ...
05 September 2006
I'll Have What Doug's Having
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Doug Engelbart is The Man: he invented practically everything clever in recent computing, from the mouse through to hypertext. One of his l...
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Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Fluxbuntu
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One of the reasons why free software will ultimately triumph is that it is based on the eminently sensible idea of building on other people&...
Is Writely Right for You?
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And talking of Writely , here's a handy round-up of Web-based word processors. I'm pretty pleased with Writely, not least with it...
The ODF Dark Horse: IBM Workplace
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By now, everyone (well, nearly) knows about ODF support in things like OpenOffice.org, KOffice and Writely. But a name that may not be so w...
Indian Simmer
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I was lucky enough to make a couple of extended visits to India some years back, and I still follow developments there as closely as I can. ...
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