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07 January 2009
The Library as Knowledge Commons
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When the going gets tough, the tough...go to the library : Fewer people bought books, CD’s, and DVD’s in 2008 than in the year before. The n...
He/She Speak de Troof
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This is something that has often struck me, too: that installing/updating programs under GNU/Linux is hugely easier than under Windows. Thi...
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How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer
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Not my words, but the subtitle of a book that apparently has wise words on the harm inflicted on society by intellectual monopolies: It is ...
Behold the Biohackers
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This is clearly getting serious : Katherine Aull's laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, lacks a few mod cons. "Down here I have ...
Is Phoenix about to Enter GPL Violation HyperSpace?
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If ultraportables were last year's big surprise success for GNU/Linux, one of the potentially exciting technologies for this year is the...
GNU/Linux from...Marks & Spencer
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As I've just written on Open Enterprise, the rise of the ultraportable/netbook was one of free software's biggest successes - and su...
ARMing GNU/Linux Netbooks for Success in 2009
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One of the surprises of 2008 was the runaway success of the ultaportable/netbook form factor. Now that systems running Windows XP are availa...
Climate Change Implies Open Access
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One of the answers to What Will Change Everything? is - reasonably enough - climate change. But interestingly it focuses on the way that ...
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06 January 2009
Vietnam in Open Source Vanguard
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Impressive how far and fast Vietnam has moved on the government open source front: Accordingly, by June 30, 2009, 100% of servers of IT div...
On the Wikinomics Paradox
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In the long run, what drives the wealth and success of an economy is productivity and efficiency. In my opinion, many of the principles of w...
The (Intellectual Monopoly) Biter Bit
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The author of a proposed Chilean law to fight copyright infringement was greeted with the warning message "This copy of Microsoft Offic...
The Once and Future Economy
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Great post by Tim O'Reilly about how we need to junk the idea that the economy can expand indefinitely, and move to a different system ...
Brainstorming with GNOME's Stormy Peters
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As I wrote last week, foundations are playing an increasingly important role in the development of free software. I cited Mozilla Foundation...
05 January 2009
Computational Journalism
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I like the sound of this : the digital revolution that has been undermining in-depth reportage may be ready to give something back, through ...
On Becoming a Twit
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In the last three years, I've written just under 4000 blog posts. You might think that is more than enough, but for some time I have be...
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04 January 2009
Another Reason to Run GNU/Linux...
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And a pretty important one : The Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s p...
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Not That Microsoft is Desperate, or Anything...
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From the You Can't Even Give It Away department: the Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft - 150 items. (Via @Jack Sch...
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Major Win for ODF in Brazil
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Great news for ODF in Brazil: it's becoming the official format for storing government agency dox: Já no passado mês de Abril de 2008, ...
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Project Gutenberg Made Easy
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In my view, Project Gutenberg doesn't get the respect it deserves. After all, this effort to make the world's literature freely ava...
DRM as Freedom-Eating Infection
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I've often written about DRM, and how it is antithetical to free software. But here's an interview with Amazon's CTO, which pr...
03 January 2009
Why IPv4 Addresses Are Like Oil
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IPv4 addresses are an increasingly rare resource. But I'd not spotted the parallel with oil until this : the US was still the largest u...
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02 January 2009
Happy Public Domain Day...
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...er, yesterday : It is January 1st, which means that this morning at midnight a batch more “life-plus” copyrights expired in those countri...
Will OpenOffice.org Go to the Ball this Year?
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I remain perplexed by the state of OpenOffice.org. After years of using Word 2 (yes, you read that correctly - by far the best version Micro...
Dear Mr Burnham....
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Tom Watson is that rare thing: a tech-savvy MP. And since he has taken the trouble of asking what people think about Andy Burnham's pr...
01 January 2009
Laying Down the Law
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Ever since RMS drew up the GNU GPL, code and law have been inextricably linked. Mark Radcliffe provides a good summary of the last year fr...
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