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14 December 2009
Monsoft or Microsanto?
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I and others (notably Roy Schestowitz ) have noted the interesting similarities between Microsoft and Monsanto at various levels; but a majo...
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13 December 2009
Of Access to Copyright Materials and Blindness
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In a way, I suppose we should be grateful that the content industries have decided to dig their heels in over the question of providing more...
11 December 2009
The Future Impact of Openness
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The European Commission has released a report [. pdf ] with the rather unpromising title "Trends in connectivity technologies and thei...
Uncommon Meditations on the Commons
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It's significant that books about the commons are starting to appear more frequently now. Here's one that came out six months ago:...
Preserving Patents Before the Planet
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I don't think this needs much comment: The Chamber's Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) has been front and center in this d...
Mandelson's Power to Censor the Net
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I and many others have already noted that the proposed Digital Economy Bill gives far too many sweeping powers to the government. According...
Visualising Open Data
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One of the heartening trends in openness recently has been the increasing, if belated, release of non-personal government data around the wo...
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10 December 2009
Why Does Amazon Want to Be Evil?
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I like Amazon's services. Indeed, judging by the amount I spend with the company, I'm probably a suitable case for treatment for Am...
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UK Data Retention Double Standards
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As we know, the UK government intends to force UK ISPs to store vast amounts of data about our online activities. The idea that this might ...
09 December 2009
Is EU Parroting the ACTA Lie?
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I've written several times about the trick that ACTA uses to blur the distinction between large-scale, criminal counterfeiting, and dom...
From Open Source to Open Hardware
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This column mainly talks about open source software, for the simple reason that code dominates the world of openness. But open source hardwa...
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08 December 2009
Nothing to See Here, Absolutely Nothing At All...
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As we all now know, Climate Change is fake. Sure the precarious resource and geo-political struggle fossil fuels continues to place us in ar...
Intellectual Monopolists Scorn the Blind
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The ever-vigilant James Love pointed to this fascinating submission from the UK's venerable Royal National Institute of the Blind [. pdf...
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07 December 2009
Publisher, Know Thyself
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If it weren't sad - and serious - this would be hilarious: Springer, which publishes the biggest daily in Europe, the tabloid Bild, as ...
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Microsoft Gets in on the ACTA
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The other day I was writing about the great digital bait and switch : Counterfeiting morphed into copyright infringement ... there's cle...
Why the UK's “Smarter Government” Plan is Not So Clever
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There's no doubt that the area outside computing where the ideas underlying open source are being applied most rapidly and most successf...
Declaration of Open Government by Australia
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The Australian government is emerging as one of the leaders in the sphere of open government. It has now published a draft report of the G...
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03 December 2009
US ACTA Official Squirms, Talks Drivel
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Great work by James Love here : After attending the three day WTO Ministerial meeting in Geneva, I took the non-stop United Airlines Flight ...
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RSS Feed for All Comments for Opendotdotdot
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After some prodding by a reader (thanks Rob), I've finally switched on the RSS feed for *all* comments, not just on a per-story basis, f...
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The Great Digital Bait and Switch
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One of the (many) things that get my goat about ACTA is the sheer dishonesty of the project. It was originally put forward as aiming to cur...
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Smart Grid, Dumb Government
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Now, what could possibly go wrong with this ? The government has announced the results of its consultation with the public and other interes...
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02 December 2009
James Hansen: the RMS of Climate Change
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Under the rather, er, dramatic headline "Copenhagen climate change talks must fail, says top scientist", we have the following : I...
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LexPublica: Open Sourcing the Legal Process
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Yet more innovation around open source ideas, from an outfit called LexPublica (with a clever URL, too): There is a crying need for access...
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Making Government IT Better - and Open
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As I've noted many a time, the UK government has been one of the most backward when it comes to adopting open source solutions. The fact...
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01 December 2009
Crowdsourcing Tony Blair
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This is brilliant : The former prime minister Tony Blair has received millions of pounds through an unusual mixture of commercial, charitabl...
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