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07 January 2008
Open Source Shopping Baskets
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On Open Enterprise blog .
ODF Alliance Annual Report
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On Open Enterprise blog .
Firefox Users Against Boredom
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Statistics show that Firefox Users are more inclined to have rich, exciting experiences on the web and in everyday life. Others, however, fi...
Confirmed! Sony is Barking
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Sony BMG Music Entertainment on Jan. 15 becomes the last major record company to sell downloads without copy restrictions which would be gr...
Noahpad: The Asus Eee Wannabe(ee)
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I've written several times about the Asus Eee PC, and how I see it as the start of a new market sector where open source possesses consi...
Desperately Seeking Google
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Speaking of Google's global ambitions, here's an article in The New Yorker on the same subject - and more: In its 2004 annual rep...
Wikia: Weak, but Working on It
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So, the much-bruited Wikia has finally launched , in alpha at least: Wikia is working to develop and popularize a freely licensed (open sour...
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OLPC XO-1 Exposed
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The OLPC XO-1 project has been something of a roller-coaster ride. Widely praised when it launched, and then progressively pooh-poohed (inc...
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06 January 2008
Searching for Free Software's Shared Space
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Sharing lies at the heart of free software, so I was naturally intrigued to read about the concept of "shared space" traffic manag...
Open Hardware: Soon to be Boring
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The New York Times has a feature on the Neuros OSD (for open source device): The Neuros OSD connects to your TV or home theater system an...
04 January 2008
Fearful Symmetry
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I've noted before that Microsoft is in difficulty over the ultra-mobile machines like the Asus EEE PC; now it seems that the other half...
Spreading OpenID
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On Open Enterprise blog .
Less Dosh for OSS...And So?
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On Open Enterprise blog .
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Google: Don't Be Evil, Be...God
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Eeek .
Thunderbird the Phoenix?
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As a keen Thunderbird user I've voiced my concerns that it was turning into the Cinderella of the open source world. That's why I...
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03 January 2008
What Henry Blodget Just Does Not Get
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Here's one of the barmiest - and saddest - things I've ever read, from a certain Henry Blodget: When Will Firefox/Mozilla Go Public...
Who's Got the Right Idea? Dave Sifry Has
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On Open Enterprise blog .
Open Source: A Question of Metrics
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Here's a characteristically thought-provoking post from Chris Messina: I’ve probably said it before, and will say it again, and I’m als...
A Peach of an Apricot
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I wrote previously about the open source film "Elephants Dream", produced the Blender Foundation. Recently it's been working...
Afghanistan Digital Library
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There's something both forlorn and yet hopeful about the Afghanistan Digital Library . Forlorn, because its collection of scanned image...
02 January 2008
Remembrance of Things Past
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One of the key issues in the battle between ODF and OOXML is access to documents over long timeframes. It's not just a matter of which ...
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Vista's Problem: Microsoft Does Not Scale
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It is deeply ironic that once upon a time Linux - and Linus - was taxed with an inability to scale. Today, though, when Linux is running ev...
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Google's Secret Weapon
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In Redmond Magazine (no, really.)
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01 January 2008
An Economist Questions Intellectual Monopolies
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Madisonian.net pointed me to a writer I'd not come across before, Dean Baker. He has a nice line in puncturing the economic nonsense p...
In a Bit of a Scrape
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"Mix and mash" lies at the heart of the power of openness: it allows people to come up with new, often better, uses of data, notab...
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