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09 September 2007
Open Sourcing the Singularity
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Fab post of a presentation made yesterday by Jamais Cascio at the disconcertingly-named Singularity Summit (what - does it all fold up int...
Firefox Hit 400 Million Downloads
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This is worth quoting at length: On November 9th, 2004, you all started a movement. Spread Firefox, supported by tens of thousands of contr...
Glimmer of Hope for US Patent System
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A small step towards patent sanity has been taken : The House approved the most sweeping changes to United States patent law in more than ha...
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07 September 2007
Mobile Linux Goes East
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There's an interesting graphic in this story , which shows how very different the smartphone market is around the world - and how big Li...
Why Open Source is Different
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When you read the following , bear in mind it's written by someone who is running one of the most important - and successful - open sour...
06 September 2007
e-Postcard from Number 10
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Ooh, look: an email from that nice man at Number 10 about my signing the petition against the Windows-only iPlayer: The Government set up t...
Bad Amazon, Naughty Amazon
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So, Amazon's getting into the ebook business; that's nice. But : Amazon isn’t supporting the industry’s open standard around eBooks...
Enter the Open Komodo Dragon
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I've always been struck by how little known the company ActiveState is, given that it's worked with many open source languages such...
05 September 2007
Open Social Web: A Bill of Rights for Users
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Authored by Joseph Smarr, Marc Canter, Robert Scoble, and Michael Arrington September 4, 2007 We publicly assert that all users of the soci...
MPAA Jets in To Spread Some Cinematic Fantasy
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When are these people going to get a clue ? Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) president Dan Glickman is today lobbying UK film mi...
Is Silverlight for GNU/Linux Moonshine?
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Hm, don't know what to think about this : Over the last few months we've been working to enable Silverlight support on Linux, and to...
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Microsoft Loves Openness
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Well, some openness : BioMed Central, the world’s largest publisher of peer-reviewed, open access research journals, is pleased to announce ...
Chalk One Up for Larry & Co.
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Nice little victory here for Larry Lessig and friends in their fight to defend the shrinking public domain in the US: The 10th Circuit deci...
04 September 2007
How Orange Can Become the Apple of Our Eye
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Orange has repackaged some of its services for telecommuting workers into a portfolio called "Open Office." And yet it doesn't...
Open Standards Behind Closed Doors
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This isn't right: The British Standards Institution has sent its response to the International Organization for Standardization on the ...
Microsoft Spins Negative OOXML Result
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Classic Microsoft press release here on the OOXML decision under the upbeat heading "Strong Global Support for Open XML as It Enters F...
Chinese Whispers
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Here's another billion reasons why DRM'd music downloads will die out - and why copyright law will need to be rewritten: Like milli...
The Right to Roam and the Right to Read
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Peter Murray-Rust has been coming out with some cracking posts recently. First, there was the charming story of OUP demanding that he pay ...
Philip Rosedale 1.5
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If you ever wondered what happened to that nice Mr Rosedale , here's an update .
Note to SELF: Free Educational Material
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Hot off tomorrow's press - the launch of Science, Education and Learning in Freedom ( SELF ): SELF is an international project aiming to...
What's (Open) Source for the Goose...
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A report suggesting that the Chinese military has hacked into German government computers could have a negative impact on the prospects in W...
The Man from the BBC Speaketh
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I've been pretty critical of many aspects of the BBC's online activities, not least its dratted Windows-only, DRM'd iPlayer. B...
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03 September 2007
Koolu: Very Cool
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Not hot, but definitely cool . (Via Eddie Bleasdale and his interesting new Trusted Computing Project - no, not that one ....)
Open Source Darkstar...
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...is here (and not just promised .) Well done chaps, nonetheless.
Open Science Means Open Source
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The need for open access and open data in science seems obvious enough - even enough some persist in denying it. But as science becomes in...
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