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11 May 2008
A Word in Your Ear
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A little while back I gave Peter Murray-Rust a hard time for daring to suggest that OOXML might be acceptable for archiving purposes. Here&...
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In Praise of the Public Domain
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I write a lot about licensing here. Indeed, licensing arguably lies at the heart of free software. But there's another important way o...
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09 May 2008
Another Pebble on the Open Driver Cairn
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I've written elsewhere about the signs that things are finally moving on the open source drivers front. Here's one more pebble on...
Has Thunderbird Finally Taken Off?
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There's an interesting set of data on TechCrunch derived from the consolidated activity of users of the RescueTime service. This show...
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Death of a Meme: GPL Wins in Court Again
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On Open Enterprise blog .
UX: Usability, Productivity, Enjoyment
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I'm happy to announce the new logo of the User Experience Team. The main goal of the logo is to penetrate core values of the project: ...
08 May 2008
Microsoft Gives a Big Hug to ISO SC34...
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...and some dosh .
Intellectual (Monopoly) Ventures
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Mike Masnick is a truly fantastic writer, because he begins a piece thus: Malcolm Gladwell is a truly fantastic writer ...only to end up pr...
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What Can We Learn from the MySQL Saga?
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On Open Enterprise blog .
07 May 2008
Gramophone's Unique Record
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As a young lad getting into classical music, Gramophone was my bible. I would read it pretty much from cover to cover, and it became an im...
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Open Enterprise Interview: Mike Milinkovich
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On Open Enterprise blog .
06 May 2008
Viva El Software Libre!
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When you think of groups promoting the adoption of free software around the world, you do not probably think of staid old UNESCO; and yet th...
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Open Source Drug Discovery
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There's something utterly perverse about the way new drugs are developed. Pharmaceutical companies spend hundreds of millions - sometim...
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Microsoft Joins Open Source Business Foundation
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Here's another interesting example of Microsoft's attempt to snuggle up to open source: Die Open Source Business Foundation (OSBF) ...
05 May 2008
Why Libertarians Should Love GNU/Linux
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Ha! When software is produced by a commercial company and sold in the marketplace, it’s relatively easy for the state to tax and regulate it...
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Czy Spadające Ceny Pamięci Flash Zagrażają Microsoft?
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One for my Polish readers (with thanks to Iwo Hencz ).
When is a Standard Not a Standard?
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On Open Enterprise blog .
04 May 2008
Brazil, Free Software and "Castrated Windows"
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Like many, I've been keeping my eye on the Brazilian computer market, since there seems to be a lot happening there in terms of free sof...
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03 May 2008
Xandros: Good News, Bad News
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The good news : Xandros is known for its Windows-like Linux distribution, which has been dubbed by one DesktopLinux reviewer as "the be...
OOXML? For Pete's Sake, No
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Peter Murray-Rust is one of the key figures in the world of open data and open science, and deserves a lot of the credit for making these is...
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There Are 9 Million Underground Stations in Beijing
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This is what wikis were invented for: Dongdan Subway Station is an underground subway station on the Beijing Subway's Line 1 and Line 5.
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02 May 2008
Has OOXML Broken the British Standards Institution?
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On Open Enterprise blog .
01 May 2008
Asus Eee PC: Just the Facts
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I've written much about the rise of ultraportables, but it's nice to have hard numbers as well as the hand waving. Here are some f...
Do You Copy, RIAA?
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Here's an important observation : Though there is already a growing body of legal decisions that seem to be weighing against RIAA effort...
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Multiple Implementations vs. Multiple Standards
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I've written many times about the distinction between multiple competing impementations of a standard, which promote competition because...
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