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16 September 2009
From the GNU GPL to GISAID's EpiFlu
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A few months ago, I wrote about GISAID , which takes a rather interesting and - to readers of this blog, at least - familiar approach to sh...
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15 September 2009
Nonplussed by Non-Commercial
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One of the vexed issues in the world of Creative Commons licensing is what, exactly, is meant by "non-commercial" use. In an atte...
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14 September 2009
Wikipedia + Flickr = Fotopedia
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I am a huge fan of Wikipedia, one of the greatest achievements of sharing; I also enjoy wandering around Flickr, although its lack of over-a...
MakeHuman Makes Open Source More Human
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One of the canards about open source is that it only produces hardcore hacker programs - dev tools, infrastructural stuff etc. - that have l...
Checks Are Indeed Needed - on Reality
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Here's an unbelievably shameless attempt by Sir Roger Singleton to shout down the justified concern in the face of the insane UK govern...
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12 September 2009
On Opening Up with PHP
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PHP is one of the big success stories of open source, so it's great to read this interview with its creator, Rasmus Lerdorf. I was esp...
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Time for MPs to Face the Music on Sharing
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Another ill-informed opinion piece from a politician about file-sharing: Platinum selling artists Radiohead and Pink Floyd have said they a...
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Russia's New Holiday: Programmer's Day
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Russia's President Medvedev has decreed a new holiday for the country: Президент России Дмитрий Медведев своим указом установил професс...
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11 September 2009
Governments Have Political Agendas? Surely Not
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This interview about the EU's intervention on the Oracle-Sun deal made me chortle: Q: What is the motivation for the EC itself? Weiss: ...
Why Gordon Brown is Not Turing Complete
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Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for Alan Turing and recognition of the appalling way he was treated. While Turing w...
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10 September 2009
Marriage Made in Hell: FOI+DRM
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This is not as it's supposed to be: Secretive management at Southampton University are undermining the spirit of Freedom of Information...
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BBC Worldwide Merging with Microsoft?
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Against this background : BBC Worldwide’s digital sales and business development head Peter Mercier is leaving to be Microsoft’s content acq...
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08 September 2009
The Open Dinosaur Project
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Now this is what I call open science: Hello, and thanks for dropping by at the Open Dinosaur Project. This blog is part of a wider project...
Intellectual (Monopolies) Ventures
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I've been avoiding this story about nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures using patent trolls as proxies because it's just bey...
Someone Has a Man with a Red Flag Moment
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This is so misguided: Digital personal property (DPP) is an attempt to make consumers treat digital media like physical objects. For instan...
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07 September 2009
In Praise of the Book Sprint
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One of the things that I find fascinating about open source is the way it generates epiphenomena - things that don't really happen with ...
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Lies, Damned Lies and Media Industry Numbers
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A few months back, I wrote about how some figures quoted in the "Copycats" report produced by University College London's CIB...
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05 September 2009
Needlessly Needling Neelie
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Predictably, the EU's announcement that it would be conducting an "in-depth investigation into proposed takeover of Sun Microsyste...
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04 September 2009
Good Thoughts on Naughty Lord Mandelson
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One of the heartening things about the disheartening three-strikes saga currently playing out in the UK is the quality of the opposition tha...
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Microsoft Teaches Pupils About Lock-in
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I'm amazed Microsoft hasn't done this before: Microsoft's Education Labs launched a new project this afternoon and it's bet...
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03 September 2009
UK: Bye-Bye Biometrics
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I missed this during the summer lull, but that handy invention, Twitter (in the form of Oliver Morton ), has alerted me to this stunning tak...
02 September 2009
Is This a Wind-up?
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A major British inventor is calling for a change in the law to strengthen protection against those who try to steal ideas. Trevor Baylis, wh...
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Microsoft Wants Patent Harmonisation...
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...guess what kind : Big challenges certainly confront the global patent system: Escalating patent application backlogs; lengthening pendenc...
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Copyright Reform Made Easy
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As readers of this blog will have noticed, I'm not a big fan of intellectual monopolies like copyright or patents. For the former, I...
01 September 2009
Microsoft Impresses Itself Upon the Press
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Roy Schestowitz has some astonishing documents up on his site that detail Microsoft's attempts to bend the press to its will: Stephanie...
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