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10 February 2009
Help Fight This Patent-Encumbered IETF Standard
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I've written numerous times about the importance of writing to governments about their hare-brained schemes, but this one is rather diff...
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09 February 2009
Free The Postcode - Yes, *You* There
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One of the most successful open projects is OpenStreetMap , which seeks to bypass the Ordnance Survey's stranglehold on geodata in the U...
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Fedora as Basis of Russia's Operating System?
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An interesting conversation took place recently: Несколько дней назад в Минкомсвязи России прошла встреча с участием главы Минкомсвязи РФ И...
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Do Top Hackers Have Too Much Money?
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The announcement that one of MySQL's founders, Monty Widenius, was leaving Sun, was generally regarded as a pity, though no huge surpris...
How is This Happening Here?
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I just cannot believe this stuff : Having discovered what a useful tool [the 1997 Protection from Harassment Act] had become, in 2005 the go...
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Open Tech 2009
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Good to see more openness being spread around: *What is OpenTech 2009?* - Open Tech 2009 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on sl...
08 February 2009
The Torygraph's Tall Story
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The Sunday Telegraph has shocking news : Russia and China have been identified as having the most active spy networks operating in the UK b...
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07 February 2009
Enter the Lizard
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Here's an interesting post from Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's boss, commenting on the EU's decision to investigate Microsoft for it...
06 February 2009
Proof that Microsoft Now Fears for the Desktop
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Hmm, lookee here: Microsoft wants to hire a Director, Open Source Desktop Strategy. Here are the details : The Windows Competitive Strategy...
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A Tale of Two Consultations
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One of the running themes on this blog is the importance of engaging with the powers that be, specifically through responding to government ...
05 February 2009
Fortify Jumps on the Meta Open Source Bandwagon
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I've already noted my scepticism with regard to the Tories' pledge to go open. Although I applaud a move away from an increasingly c...
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Spot the Porkie Pies
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I don't get all this : On Wednesday, two British judges claimed that the US had threatened to stop sharing intelligence with the UK if i...
Vodafone's Little Boost for LiMo
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Vodafone has picked U.S. software firm Azingo to develop Linux-based applications, the latest sign the world's largest wireless operator...
Why HP's Mini 1000 Mi Edition is Important
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Hp's new Mini 1000 Mi is starting to win plaudits all over the place. It's not hard to see why: it looks cool, has cool specs, and ...
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Is the EU Acting Duplicitously Over ACTA?
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As I and many others have noted, the current negotiations over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) are, on the one hand, shrouded...
04 February 2009
Light Blue Rebel Code
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Cambridge University is celebrating its 800th anniversary in 2009. The official history tells the tale of the buildings; but what about the ...
Syria and Lebanon Go Open Source
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Here's a useful post on what's happening with regards to open source in the Middle East: A good news for the open source scene. Two...
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Volantis Who? - a UK Open Source Success Story
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Guildford is not famous for being a hotbed of open source, but that's where the British open source company Volantis is based. It's ...
Microsoft Issues "Microsoft on the Issues"
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Here's an interesting site I'd missed : Today we are launching "Microsoft on the Issues" to open another, more direct lin...
Canadian Government Considers Open Source
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The Canadian Government has put out a "Request For Information" ( RFI ) - essentially, a formal invitation for feedback on the top...
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03 February 2009
Now Brazil Goes Big on the GNU/Linux Desktop
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At the end of last year I wrote about a big Brazilian project to provide 150,000 GNU/Linux notebooks for schools. Now the Brazilian Minist...
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Spreading the Spreadfirefox Effect
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One of the most powerful forces in free software is the community behind the code. Its potential can be seen most clearly in the Spread Fire...
02 February 2009
Into Africa
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If there were ever a region that could benefit immensely from open source, it is Africa. And yet South Africa aside, not much seems to be h...
Is This the Solution to Spam?
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I think I may have come up with a possible solution for spam. But first, some background. On Open Enterprise blog .
01 February 2009
The Open Bank
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We need openness everything - even in banks : It would feature radical transparency: full disclosure of performance and compensation. The gr...
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