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09 May 2007
Ode to an OA Hero
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Open access is only just beginning to creep into public consciousness, so it is hardly suprising that the OA pioneers - the people that have...
Maybe It's Because I'm a Dot-Ldn-er
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Yes: as the world's most exciting city - think Swinging Sixties goes digital (Networked Naughties?) - London absolutely has to have its...
OpenJDK
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Free !
Insights into the Hacker Worldview
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From David Miller, one of the most senior kernel hackers, comes this little story : Say you've been doing nothing for the past few weeks...
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Learning from the Encyclopedia of Life
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One of the great trends online is to pool data to create a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts. The Encyclopedia of Life is one...
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08 May 2007
13 AE 01 56 46 3C 13 30 2E 9E CA 2B 13 30 FE 14
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No, it's not that number , it's my number : First, we generate a fresh pseudorandom integer, just for you. Then we use your intege...
Ubuntu Uber Alles
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Can Ubuntu do no wrong? First Dell , now this : To fulfil the aims of our mission and in response to the technical challenges that these de...
Cory on the DRM'd BBC
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I and many others have written about the pathetic moves by the BBC in terms of adopting Windows DRM, but you've got to give it to Cory, ...
The Chief Lizard Wrangler Speaketh
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One of the unsung heroines of the open source movement is Mitch Baker, whose official job title is " Chief Lizard Wrangler " - the...
07 May 2007
German Court Gets It Badly Wrong
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Bad decision, bad news : the Court states that operators of Internet forums are liable for all comments posted there, even if the operator h...
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04 May 2007
Microsoft +Yahoo! = MegaHard!!!
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Very interesting development here: Microsoft is starting to pursue Yahoo. This is completely logical: Microsoft is getting so utterly trou...
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Open Trading
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One of the important benefits that flows from openness is that it allows decisions to be made on the basis of verifiable information. This ...
Heavenly Mashups
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One of the most important innovations of the Web 2.0 era has been the mashup. As I've noted before, mashups really need underlying mesh...
Something Rotten in the State of the BBC
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This is beginning to look seriously bad. First, the BBC makes a duff decision over adopting Windows DRM, and now this : Erik Huggers, a sen...
First Big Blue, Now True Blue Open Source
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I remember well my shock - and delight - when IBM announced that it was throwing its weight behind GNU/Linux on 10 January 2000. I feel som...
The Economics of Free
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One of the central themes of this blog is that Internet has changed many things by allowing the distribution of digital objects for virtuall...
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03 May 2007
Open Source War - and Open Source
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Another characteristically clear-sighted post from Jamais Cascio on the subject of open source war and the changing nature of power in a ne...
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Defending the Street Tree
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Another great commons under threat : In towns and cities across the country, millions of other street trees are less lucky. Supersized lorri...
Sun Joins Mac Port of OpenOffice.org
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Further signs of Sun's broad commitment to open source and OpenOffice.org: I'm excited to let you all know that as of now Sun engin...
02 May 2007
(Not So) Mysterious Asia
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Simon Phipps has some interesting numbers relating to open source in Asia: It seems that a few years ago, more than 95% of the software mar...
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No Progeny for Progeny
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Progeny's metabolic processes are now history. It's off the twig and has kicked the bucket, apparently . With its founder, Ian Mur...
Why Their Number is Up
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There is an incredible - nay, pivotal - event unfolding on Digg. And it all revolves around a number. As the excellent Brownian Emotion e...
Now You're Talking
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This is my kind of journal : The Northwest Journal of Linguistics is dedicated to the description and analysis of the indigenous languages o...
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01 May 2007
Dell Desktop Derby: And the Winner Is...
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... Ubuntu . Now there's a surprise .
Manifesto for Free Appliances
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More open goodness : Just as there is a need for Free Software, there is a need for free (as in speech) appliances. Free Appliances can be m...
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