open...
open source, open genomics, open creation
10 March 2009
South Korea Joins the "Three Strikes" Club
›
For years, the content industries having been trying to get laws passed that would stop people sharing files. For years they failed. And t...
8 comments:
Sailing to Port 25
›
An interesting move by Microsoft: I would like to introduce Mark Stone, who will be a regular contributor to Port 25 going forward. Mark ha...
Guardian Leads the Way (Again)
›
At a time when most newspapers are talking doom and gloom, the Guardian is instead *doing* something - and thriving (maybe there's a co...
11 comments:
09 March 2009
Wired's Open Government Data Wiki
›
Wired has an idea : If you're a fan of free data flow into and out of the government, Vivek Kundra seems like an ally. But we can't ...
Germany Funds Open Source Software
›
I missed this when it first came out a couple of weeks ago: Der Bundesrat hat am 20.2.2009 dem Gesetz zur Sicherung von Beschäftigung und S...
UK Government Wants to Kill Net Neutrality in EU
›
The UK government is fast turning into the digital villain of Europe as far as the Internet is concerned. Not content with monitoring every...
2 comments:
SCO What? It's Patently over for Copyright
›
Remember SCO? It's a once-important company that developed a death-wish by suing IBM in 2003. As Wikipedia explains... On Open Enterpris...
07 March 2009
Not that We Live in a Police State...
›
...but there is this : Police are targeting thousands of political campaigners in surveillance operations and storing their details on a dat...
4 comments:
06 March 2009
Opining on Generation Open
›
Here's a nice little thought-piece from Chris Messina: The people within Facebook not only believe in what they’re doing but are on the...
Do Open Source Eyeballs Really Work?
›
One of the most contentious areas in computing is whether open source is more or less secure than closed source systems. Open source is open...
05 March 2009
Cuba Gets an (Open) Hand from Brazil
›
It's been evident for some time that Brazil is a real powerhouse of open source. Now it's moving to the next level: exporting its...
The Real Reason for Microsoft's TomTom Lawsuit
›
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Microsoft's suit against TomTom, which alleged infringement of eight of its patents - including thre...
Open Microblogging for Open Source Professionals
›
I like Twitter, but I feel rather guilty about using it , since it's hardly open source. Of course, there's Laconi.ca , which is no...
6 comments:
Nutting Net Neutrality
›
If you thought all that anti-net neutrality stuff was just for Yanks, think again: they're trying to sneak it over here, too: Telcos ar...
2 comments:
Patently Good News
›
There have been a number of important cases on both sides of the Atlantic concerning the patenting of software recently. In the UK, there we...
03 March 2009
CollabNet Comes Out of the Shadows
›
CollabNet has a fascinating history that goes back to 1999, when Collab.Net launched SourceXchange: a site where companies can post proposal...
Is This the Next Aral Sea?
›
Ever heard of Lake Balkhash? Me neither. But now might be a good time to get to know it - before it disappears like the Aral Sea: Lake Ba...
Defend the Data Protection Act
›
One of the most important and earliest pieces of legislation concerning digital information is the Data Protection Act (DPA). Clause 152 of ...
UK Government Fails to Get Web 2.0
›
This is so depressing : There should be no new exemption from copyright law for users' adaptations of copyright-protected content, the U...
2 comments:
How to Save Investigative Journalism
›
There's increasing hand wringing over the fact that revenues at dead-tree newspapers are diving, leading to redundancies, and loss of th...
What the Hashtag?!
›
One of the reasons Twitter has taken off and become so popular (at least amongst sad people such as myself with nothing better to do) is th...
4 comments:
02 March 2009
Linux's Next Frontier: “In-Vehicle Infotainment”
›
One of the sure signs that open source is taking hold in computing is that it is spreading far beyond its heartland, the datacentre. Smartph...
How to Make Money from Music
›
Someone's managed : it was recently revealed that rock gods Aerosmith have made more money off of their crummy co-branded version of Gui...
6 comments:
Sun's McNealy Sees the Light on Open Source
›
If you were looking for a sign of the times in computing, you could do worse than consider the trajectory of Scott McNealy. When he was runn...
Help Stop Clause 152...
›
...of the Coroners and Justice Bill (currently being debated in Parliament): it's not just bad, it's diablolically bad, because it l...
‹
›
Home
View web version