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11 May 2009
Heather Brooke: Breaking the MPs' Silence
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If any one person deserves credit for bringing openness to MPs' expenses, it is Heather Brooke , who almost single-handedly has fought f...
Open Mapping Considered Harmful
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If you want further proof that openness is inherently subversive, try this : China's Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (BSM) has warned fo...
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Patent Differences: Canonical vs. Microsoft
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I make no apologies for returning to the subject of the European Patent Office's referral of a “point of law” concerning software patent...
09 May 2009
Should Software Developers Be Liable for their Code?
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Should Microsoft pay for the billions of dollars of damage that flaws in its software have caused around the world? It might have to, if a n...
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08 May 2009
Media Vacuums Will Be Filled, Blogs Will Win
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Great point here from Adam Tinworth, about why traditional publishers are suffering so badly at the hands of the bloggers: the new breed of...
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Oh Irony, Thy Name is Westminster
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This is rich : House of Commons officials have today called in the police to hunt down the mole who leaked details of MPs expenses. The parl...
Why We Need Openness, Part 5748
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One of the central themes of this blog is that the openness that powers the continuing rise and success of open source can be applied to mos...
07 May 2009
DNA Database Doublecross
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Oh, look, what a surprise: the UK government's plans implement a European human rights ruling that the "blanket" retention of ...
It's Open, Gov, Honest
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Interesting to see Microsoft jumping on the openness bandwagon again - specifically, on the open government bandwagon: The Open Government ...
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06 May 2009
Not a Sustainable Position
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Somebody clearly doesn't understand open source: Despite a mission to make the games as financially and environmentally sustainable as ...
"Internet Access is a Fundamental Right"
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Not my words, but those of a certain Viviane Reding (NB: MS Word document ): The fourth element I would like to underline is the recognitio...
EPO: FSFE Does It by the Numbers
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Yesterday I was praising Red Hat's submission to the EPO in its pondering of the patentability of software. Today, it's the FSFE...
Forking Nagios: Behold Icinga
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One of the unique features of free software is that it can be forked. Indeed, it is one of the most powerful incentives for projects to hew ...
Malcolm Harbour Doesn't Get Net Neutrality
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It seems that one of the main architects of the disgrace that is the Telecoms Package is the UK MEP Malcolm Harbour. Here's an indicati...
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ID Cards Get Idiotically Insecure
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Remember how those magic ID cards would provide strong forms of identity, thus protecting us against terrorists, people traffickers et al.? ...
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What Happens if Microsoft Buys Twitter?
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Here's a nasty meme that's beginning to swirl around: Microsoft (MSFT) is about to finally consummate a search deal with Yahoo -- a...
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05 May 2009
Letting Go is Hard to Do
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A few weeks ago, Leo Babauta published a great post entitled "Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (or, the Privatization of the English Lan...
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Red Hat Makes its Position Patent
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Six months ago I noted that the European Patent Office had embarked upon a fairly abstruse process.... On Open Enterprise blog .
Last Chance to Save the European Internet
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Believe it or not, this saga isn't over, and things are going badly again. The Open Rights Group has a good detailed summary of what...
04 May 2009
Another Reason We Need Open Access
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One of the more laughable reasons that traditional science publishers cite in their attempts to rubbish open access is that it's somehow...
02 May 2009
Swine Flu in the Nude
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This is what the virus really looks like: 1 atgaaggcaa tactagtagt tctgctatat acatttgcaa ccgcaaatgc agacacatta 61 tgtataggtt ...
Why I Blog and Twitter
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A question that often comes up is why people blog and twitter. I've given various answers over the years, but once again Mike Masnick s...
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01 May 2009
Why Pig Flu is Better than Bird Flu: Open Data
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As I wrote two years ago, one of the most worrying aspects of bird flu (remember that?) was that virus sequences were not being shared well...
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The Shame in Spain
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I've written a number of times about Spain's use of free software, notably at the provincial level. There's even a handy - if r...
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The Sad Intellectual Monopolist's Viewpoint
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If you want to see how misguided the British publishing industry's attitudes are to copyright and its users, you could do worse than rea...
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