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10 December 2008
Their Brain on Windows
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Helios is one of free software's heroes. Here's something rather extraordinary from his blog: This blog is momentarily interrupted...
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09 December 2008
Open John Milton
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Happy Birthday, John baby : The 9th of December 2008 is John Milton's 400th birthday. To celebrate this life-long advocate of liberty w...
*Not* the Facebook Virus
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Facebook's 120 million users are being targeted by a virus designed to get hold of sensitive information like credit card details. '...
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08 December 2008
IBM Snuggles up to Ubuntu (Again)
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The announcement last week of a “Microsoft-free” desktop solution from IBM has naturally been garnering headlines, in part because it's ...
Welcome to Great (Firewall) Britain
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Most Internet users have heard of the Great Firewall of China – the technological measures put in place by the Chinese government to censor ...
06 December 2008
NYT Has Clue about Malware
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Following my post below about malware, here's an example of how it might be done: Internet security is broken, and nobody seems to know...
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05 December 2008
Misinformed about Malware
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I was moaning recently about the appalling sloppiness when it comes to viruses et al.: they are practically all for Windows, and yet nobody...
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Ingres Paints a Rosy Picture
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If you have a good memory, you might recall a 2003 research paper from Goldman Sachs called “Fear the Penguin”.... On Open Enterprise blog .
04 December 2008
"War" on File-Sharing is like "War" on Drugs
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What I find most striking about Tom’s post is that advocates of copyright maximalism are becoming increasingly candid about the tensions bet...
Microsoft's Tired TCO Toffee
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Those with good memories may recall a phase that Microsoft went through in which it issued (and generally commissioned) a stack of TCO studi...
03 December 2008
2020 FLOSS Roadmap and Looking Forward
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Making predictions is hard - especially about the future, as the saying goes. Against this background, I had low expectations of the “2020 F...
Be Afraid, Credit Card, Be Very Afraid
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Amazon.co.uk has finally opened its DRM-free Mp3 store . Prices aren't that wonderful (yet), but the convenience is dangerously appeali...
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German Federal Government to Support ODF
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Nicht slecht : Der IT-Rat der Bundesregierung hat beschlossen, das offene Dokumentenformat ODF (ISO 26300) in der Bundesverwaltung schrittwe...
The Great Virus Con-Trick
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I'm glad I'm not the only one to have cottoned on to this strange phenomenon : Ever notice how Microsoft plasters the Windows name o...
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The Muddle Kingdom
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You would have thought this represented a real opportunity for free software: Nanchang, the capital of China's eastern Jiangxi province...
Tell Us What You *Really* Think, Craig....
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Some fine outrage from our ex-man in Tashkent: I still do believe that we will come to recover from the terrible poison of the New Labour y...
What Open Source Can Learn From Open Access
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Peter Suber's indispensable SPARC Open Access Newsletter, whose latest issue has just appeared, contains some interesting thoughts of r...
02 December 2008
Principles for an Open Transition
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Talking of openness and Obama : President-elect Obama has made a clear commitment to changing the way government relates to the People. His...
Why Copyright, O Canada?
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Over on the Open Enterprise blog, I have been extolling the virtues of James Boyle's new book, The Public Domain . I still urge you to...
Openness We Can Believe In
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Of course, no danger of any of this dangerous "21st century" openness cropping up here in the UK: President-elect Obama has champ...
No Longer Wireless-less
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Now that open source has largely overcome its earlier problems with limited application availability – there's practically no area today...
Publish and Be Damned?
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If you were wondering why I have been rabbiting on about police raids on alleged leakers, here's the reason : The new Counter Terrorism ...
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01 December 2008
Is this OpenOffice.org's Firegull Moment?
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One of the pivotal moments in the recent history of free software is when a small group of coders got fed up with the slow, buggy mess that ...
Latin America Girds its (Free) Loins
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More hopeful signs of increasing activity around free software from Latin America. This time, it's the International Congress of Free S...
Saving the Intellectual Commons with Open Source
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Regular readers of this blog will know that I am not a fan of the term “intellectual property”, and that I prefer the more technically corre...
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