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24 November 2009
And Another Reason that Rupe is Wrong...
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...about his plans to gag Google, and embrace the beauteous Bing: For the plan to work, it will also require that the vast, endlessly proli...
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Promoting Open Source Science
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Open source science certainly seems to be catching on lately: there have been as many articles on the subject in the last few months as in t...
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The Internet's Infinite Subversion
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Another nicely clueful piece in the Guardian : The emancipatory potential of the free dissemination of intellectual property through infini...
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23 November 2009
Software Copyright vs. Software Patents
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Here's an noteworthy story about the different kinds of protection that can be given to software: Mit einer Stellungnahme vom 16.11.200...
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Of Credibility, Openness and Scientific Tribalism
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I've steered clear of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) break-in since emotions are still running high, while information content remains ...
Has Microsoft Got a Job for You...
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Since it's Monday morning, I thought I'd start the week gently, with a little humour, courtesy of a Microsoft job ad. After all, who...
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22 November 2009
Opening up the Black Box of Scientific Research
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I've written before about the idea of applying openness/open source ideas to science, but here's an interesting new project that at...
A Modest Proposal: "How to Fix Capitalism"
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"How to Fix Capitalism" is an insanely ambitious post that ranges over, well, just about everything concerned with business and a...
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The Copyright Ratchet Racket Explained
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I and many others have noted how changes in copyright law only ever work in one direction: to *increase* copyright's term and to give gr...
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20 November 2009
Mandelson's Madness
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The trajectory of the Digital Economy Bill has been extraordinary, constantly experiencing will-he-won't-he moments as successive consul...
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18 November 2009
Sir Tim: "Public Data is a Public Good"
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The man - er, knight - himself comments on the opening up of the Ordnance Survey, and concludes with these thoughts: Data is beginning to ...
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Free Culture Forum: Getting it Together
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As regular readers will know, I write a lot about the related areas of openness, freedom, transparency and the commons, but it's rare to...
17 November 2009
Has Ordnance Survey Managed to Find a Clue?
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This is better than I was expecting: Speaking at a seminar on Smarter Government in Downing Street later today, attended by Sir Tim Berners...
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16 November 2009
British Library's Bitter Digital Milestone
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Oh look, the British Library thinks it has passed a milestone : The British Library has added the 500,000th item to its long-term Digital Li...
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15 November 2009
Free Software for All Russian Schools in Jeopardy
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I've written before about Russia's ambitious plan to install free software throughout its education system. Worrying news suggest...
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13 November 2009
The Economics of Ecosystems
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The general area of the economics of ecosystems is something that I have been banging on about for while. Now we have a Web site and even ...
11 November 2009
The Embedded Market Beds Down with Linux
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Never a dull moment in the embedded Linux market. First Intel acquires Wind River, now the slightly less well-known Cavium acquires MontaV...
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Brazil to Allow Private Copying and Mashups
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I always said Brazil was a civilised country: O MinC proporá que a cópia privada de qualquer tipo de obra digital seja permitida sem a auto...
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The Next Bill Gates, or the Next Tim B-L?
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On Twitter, I have just been followed by @nextbillgates, which is associated with the eponymous Web site : Consider yourself to be an IT wiz...
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Why SAP is a Sap
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There's some interesting turbulence in the blogosphere about the following call from Dr. Vishal Sikka, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) o...
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06 November 2009
θαλασσα θαλασσα
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Since I've been using the Web for over 15 years, it's not often that a site leaves me gob-smacked. But of all the sites I've se...
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Microsoft's Biological Implants
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Microsoft's up to its old tricks of offering pretty baubles to the innocent with The Microsoft Biology Foundation : The bioinformatics c...
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03 November 2009
ACTA's All-out Assault on the Internet
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Michael Geist has some deeply disturbing details about what may well be in the Internet section of ACTA: 1. Baseline obligations inspired...
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WIPO Boss: ACTA Should be Open, Transparent
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Wow : On the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, Gurry said that WIPO too did not know a great deal about the talks. “Naturally w...
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28 October 2009
If a Sequoia Falls in the Forest...
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...maybe somebody's listening : Today, Sequoia Voting Systems officially introduced its latest revolutionary new offering – the Frontier...
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