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10 September 2008
A2K Goes ODF
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Access to Knowledge is an important movement designed to make knowledge, well, more accessible. Its conferences a serious knees-up where the...
09 September 2008
The Road to World Domination
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One of my regular themes on this blog is how open source is moving beyond the infrastructual programs it best known for – GNU/Linux, Apache,...
Not So Much Jaunty, As Jarring...
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As we approach the launch of Ubuntu 8.10, it's time to create space for future plans, and so I'm writing to introduce you to The Jau...
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Give One, Get One: I Still Don't Get It
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There can be few open source projects that offered so much promise, and yet which have so signally failed to deliver, as One Laptop Per Chil...
When Will They Ever Learn?
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Here's some news from Red Hat: We’ve partnered with Seneca College, one of the leaders in instituting open source software into its cour...
08 September 2008
Credativ Picks up the (Open Source) Phone
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I mentioned last week how popular the open source telephony system Asterisk was. Unsurprisingly, I'm not the only one to have noticed th...
OS/2: the Open Source Laboratory
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Remember OS/2? It was the going to be the “real” operating system that took over from the mickey mouse Windows.... Somehow, that never quite...
05 September 2008
Asterisk Discovers Again Why Open Source is a Star
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Call me parochial, but until a few minutes ago, I'd never heard of MFC/R2, and certainly had no inkling it might be important. Apparentl...
Open Source Surveillance
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True open source surveillance does exist. It's called sousveillance, and uses the idea of distributing the task among many people, often...
AT&T: Proud of its Pathetic Patent Pathology
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I thought the image in this post was only vaguely amusing, and so didn't bother pointing it out. But now that AT&T wants to add bu...
Why Open Source Will Save the World
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Here's a nice intro to why open source will save us - and not just from Microsoft: the 20th Century's model of development - the &q...
Cracking the GNU/Linux Security Cliché
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One of the jibes about GNU/Linux from the closed-source crowd is that the only reason there so few security exploits against it is that its ...
Sharing is Part of the Human Condition
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I missed this when it first came out, but it's too good not to er, share : “Since the dawn of time, human beings have felt the need to s...
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04 September 2008
I Don't Want to Say We Told You so...
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...but we told you so. If you use proprietary programs and proprietary formats, this is what happens: A number of European startups - and ...
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Why the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Doesn't Really Deliver
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Although I still think it's of great symbolic value, the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 is disappointing – and I'm not just talking about the ...
03 September 2008
The Networked NGO
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Here's an interview with Cory Doctorow, who explains with frightening lucidity just how he and his chums broke the WTO system. Key bit...
Cardiff Council Welshes on Welsh Culture
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Unbelievable : An action group says it is "aghast" at plans to sell some of Wales' oldest and rarest books. Cardiff Council co...
US Discovers It's Part of the World
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The pollution from Asia will only make it increasingly difficult for the U.S. to meet stricter and stricter air quality standards, said Lyat...
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ContactPoint: What is it Good For?
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Scrapping : Anderson disagrees: "If you allow large numbers of people access to sensitive data it's never going to be secure. You c...
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02 September 2008
Chrome: Google's Anti-Browser
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The most surprising thing about Google's new Chrome browser is that it's taken so long for it to appear. After all, the browser has ...
The Beijing Bounce
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It's started : Beijing residents are becoming increasingly vocal about their demands to keep emergency measures introduced for the Olymp...
The Beginning of the End for the ISO?
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Yesterday I was urging people to submit comments on the EU's interoperability framework. I mentioned that one of the important issues in...
How Low Can They Go?
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How about $98 low ? HiVision CO., LTD makes one of the worlds cheapest Linux laptops at $98 using a new cheaper chipset, WiFi, 1GB flash sto...
01 September 2008
Wanna Job?
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How about a professorship in source ? University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Applications are invited to fill a permanent position as Pro...
Write to Them: European Interoperability Framework v2
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I've noted before that writing to MPs/MEPs seems to be remarkably effective in terms of generating a response. The naïve among us might ...
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