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10 June 2009
SAP: Open Source's Friend or Foe?
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For an outfit that calls itself “the world's largest business software company”, the German software giant SAP is relatively little-know...
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09 June 2009
Do We Need an Apps Store for GNU/Linux?
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Everyone's doing it, so Novell wants to join in : Novell plans to bring the wealth of open-source software to everyday users through an ...
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A Different Point of View on Software Patents
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One of the fears that I and others have voiced is that the European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA) - an attempt to set up a unified Euro...
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Microsoft's Pyrrhic Victory in the Netbook War
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The rise of the netbook has been an extraordinary saga. When the Asus Eee PC was first launched at the end of 2007, it seemed to come from n...
08 June 2009
China's Censorware: What about GNU/Linux?
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News is breaking that the Chinese government will insist on censorware being shipped with all PCs: China plans to require that all personal...
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07 June 2009
Creative Commons, We Have a Problem
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I'm a big fan of the Creative Commons movement. But it has a big problem: few people have heard of it according to a survey conducted ...
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06 June 2009
Fashion Industry Repeats Software's Mistakes
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Software patents are stupid on both theoretical and practical grounds. Since software is just algorithms - that is, maths - software patent...
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05 June 2009
Open Source Sensing Initiative
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Here's another interesting initiative: open source sensing . Pervasive sensing is arriving soon — we have a short window of opportunity ...
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Keep the Libel Laws out of Science
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UK libel laws are famously unbalanced, and allow the rich and powerful to bully challengers who have truth on their side. That's bad en...
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Happy Birthday, Mozilla - and Thanks for Being Here
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Seven years ago, Mozilla 1.0 was launched: Mozilla.org, the organization that coordinates Mozilla open-source development and provides servi...
04 June 2009
Intel buys Wind River: the End of the Wintel Duopoly?
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This is big: Intel Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wind River Systems Inc, under which Intel will acquire all...
Knuth: Every Algorithm is Sacred
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One of my computer heroes, Donald Knuth, has sent a message to the head of the EPO, hoping to convince her that every algorithm is sacred, ...
This is the Future: the Grid Meets the Grid
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Wow, this is cool: At first glance it’s hard to see how the open-source software framework Hadoop, which was developed for analyzing large ...
Of Open Standards, Interoperability and Open Source
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One of the key moments in the rise of open source was when Massachusetts announced that it was adopting an open standards policy for documen...
DNA Database Breached in New Zealand
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Yesterday, I wrote about how the UK ID database has been breached even before it formally exists; now here's another tale that shows w...
03 June 2009
ID Database Breached Even Before It Exists
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Well, I was expecting this , but not so soon: A Glasgow council worker was sacked and another resigned after they were caught snooping into ...
Standing up to the Playground Bully
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The EU is contemplating some further action against Microsoft: Frustrated with past efforts to change Microsoft Corp.'s behavior, Europ...
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Why Chemical Software Will be Open Source
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Here's an important post from Mr Open Chemistry, Peter Murray-Rust: “Chemical software will be Open Source” This statement expresses bo...
The Internet Maybe Not be a Right, but is Certainly Essential
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Last month, Viviane Reding ruffled a few feathers when she stated that “Internet access is a fundamental right”. As it happens, I'd writ...
Big Open Access Win in UK
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Great news : University College London is set to become the first of the top tier of elite European universities to make all its research av...
02 June 2009
Why Open Source isn't Tiddly for BT
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I'd come across TiddlyWiki before, but never really got what it was about.... On Open Enterprise blog .
Anathematising Abject, Apologetic Asus
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I've always praised Asus for coming up with their innovative Eee PC form factor, and for really building on the strengths of GNU/Linux; ...
01 June 2009
Why Scientific Software Wants To Be Free
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Not sure if I missed this earlier, but it strikes me as a hugely important issue that deserves a wider audience whether or not it is brand ...
Women in Open Source: the Definitive Resource
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A couple of months ago, I was asking "Where are the alpha *female* hackers?" I received various helpful answers, albeit rather f...
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Why Security by Obscurity Fails, Part 674
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Great story in Wired about a master lock-picker, opening what are supposedly the most secure locks in the world: These were the same Medeco...
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