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09 April 2007
A Loony Idea
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From his office in Nevada, entrepreneur Dennis Hope has spawned a multi-million-dollar property business selling plots of lunar real estate ...
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Coincidence? I Don't Think So....
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Last week I noted a highly partial piece of writing that leapt to Microsoft's defence over its dispute with European Commission. And w...
What's in a Name? Why Gaim Became Pidgin
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The multi-platform IM program Gaim is one of the must-have open source tools. Even though its technology has been great, it's had big p...
08 April 2007
Coastline as Commons
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It's catching on: Walkers are to be given the "right to roam" around the entire coastline of Britain, under government propos...
06 April 2007
Where in the World is GeoRSS?
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A Slashdot post reveals the precise geographical location of my ignorance about GeoRSS : Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds This ...
Vittoria! - Piccola ma Bella
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A small but perfectly-formed victory from the Associazione per il Software Libero: On february the 21st 2006 the Italian Ministry of Work a...
Microsoft is Losing the Battle...and Losing It
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Microsoft must be either really desperate or desperately out of touch with both reality and the prevailing perceptions of its actions if it ...
05 April 2007
Microsoft Begs the World to Beg; I Beg to Differ
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It would have been more appropriate had this come out on April 1st : If you agree that Open XML should be approved as an ISO standard please...
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What's in a Name?
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This is a seriously bad move : Online fantasy world "Second Life" will soon introduce the virtual equivalent of vanity plates, all...
All A-Twitter About Twittervision
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I am not a Twitterer, but I am the sad kind of person who enjoys watching defragmentation utilities as they bring order to my hard disc chao...
More News About Neuf
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Last year, I wrote about the interesting idea of offering a nearly-free computer as an extra to a broadband connection. Inevitably, the &q...
Microsoft Welcomes Openness and Standards
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Here are some wise words on EMI's move to sell its entire catalogue without DRM: Reindorp said the move could help Microsoft's effo...
04 April 2007
Oh: And I Thought IBM Got It
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One of the key moments in the rise of open source was IBM's announcement on 10 January 2000 that it would be supporting GNU/Linux across...
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SCO: This Time It's Personal...
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...and pathetic . When a company starts harassing someone in this way, you can tell they've given up hope. On the basis of what's h...
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Open Genomics, Closed Minds
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One of the great things about open genomics - or bioinformatics if you prefer its traditional name - is that it provides a completely object...
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European Patents: Not So Obvious
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Here's a depressing little document : Patents are a driving force for promoting innovation, growth and competitiveness. ... It is sugges...
It's (Open) Party Time!
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For anyone in Swinging London 2.0 next Wednesday, the place to be is the Open Rights Group party : It will be a night of public domain and o...
Once We've Got the Coop, Who Needs a Flock?
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Mozilla Labs are working on the Coop : The Coop will let users keep track of what their friends are doing online, and share new and interes...
03 April 2007
The Open Medicine Paradigm
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Here's a paradigmatic tale : The editors who were fired or resigned over the editorial-independence controversy at the Canadian Medical ...
EUPL Gets the Big "Yes"...Well, One of Them
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So EUPL - the European Union Public Licence - is now approved , by the European Commission at least: The Commission has approved the EUPL on...
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Licence to Thrill
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As I've written elsewhere , licences are not peripheral to free software, they lie at its very heart. So argy-bargy over the new draft...
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Cultivating the (Oz) Commons
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Aside from its intrinsic interest, there is a good reason for observing closely what happens to content in Australia. Because of the Free T...
02 April 2007
The Great Content Taboo is Broken
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This is what we've been waiting for: EMI Music today announced that it is launching new premium downloads for retail on a global basis,...
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01 April 2007
Hacking Second Life (Properly)
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Now that the code for the Second Life client is available as open source, I wondered who would be the first to offer a how-to. And the winn...
Somebody Gets a (Second) Life
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These guys were the new philosophers, and they had discovered a way to be involved in the latest technologies of the day, and not just from ...
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