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15 March 2010
Does Quebec Hate Free Software?
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I haven't been following all the ins and outs of this saga, but it looks like the Quebec government is getting unnecessarily heavy agai...
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Power2010 Picks...Tony McNulty
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Power2010 aims to highlight egregious cases of MPs damaging democracy and blocking its reform. For their first case, they have picked Tony ...
Why I Bother Acting on ACTA
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As you may have noticed, I write quite a lot about ACTA. Indeed, I've been doing it for a comparatively long time: my first post on th...
12 March 2010
The Future of Advantage: Sharing and Serving
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As I've noted before , I often find Umair Haque's posts a little, er, opaque. But either he's getting clearer (possible) or my ...
11 March 2010
Hollywood's Post-theatrical Problem, Isn't
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There's a great piece in the Washington Post with the headline "The MPAA says the movie business is great. Unless it's lousy....
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WikiPremed: Making Money from Free
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The virtues of free are pretty inarguable, but advocating the open release of stuff inevitably begs the question: but how do you make a livi...
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Microsoft Proves it Can Go Open Source
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One of the technologies I am waiting for would allow me to effect transactions without giving over vast quantities of personal data. After ...
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A Class Act from the European Parliament
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One of the most dispiriting aspects of the ACTA saga is that practically everything has been conducted behind closed doors. What we know is ...
10 March 2010
Is Microsoft Afraid to Say the “L”-word?
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It seems that, having lost its position as monarch of the world of computing, Microsoft has decided to become the industry jester. Last week...
Open Science vs. Closed Companies
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Here are some interesting thoughts on open science and how it relates to those working within companies: Just as secrecy in academia only m...
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2012 Olympics Win Gold Medal for Liberticide
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I always hated the Olympics as a vulgar, corrupt and expensive display of corrosive, narrow-minded nationalism. Later, I came to realise th...
There's Nothing New Under the Sun
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One of the many sad aspects of Sun's disappearance into the maw of Oracle is that many will see this as “proof” that its strategy of bui...
09 March 2010
Open Source Saves the Day (and Lots of Dosh)
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It seems every day we hear about hideous cost overruns on public sector projects in the UK. What makes it even more frustrating is that open...
Open Science vs. Intellectual Monopolies
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Here's a key section from the new Royal Society report "The scientific century: securing our future prosperity": Science thri...
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08 March 2010
Bill Gates (Hearts) Openness a Bit More
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Here's an interesting project: the Open Course Library . These are its goals : * design 81 high enrollment courses for face-to-face, hy...
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Open Source and Security: Are there Limits?
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You might think that's a pretty ridiculous question to ask, since the canard about open source being less secure than closed source has ...
05 March 2010
UrbanLabs OS: Not What You Think...
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How about this : an open operating system for a *city*? MisiĆ³n: idear, desarrollar, testear, implementar y difundir componentes de un nuevo ...
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04 March 2010
Open Source Earth
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One of the main impulses behind this blog is looking at the ways the ideas behind free software are being applied in other areas. Another m...
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Hear that Mozilla Drumbeat? No, Me Neither
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A few months ago, I wrote about Mozilla's new Drumbeat campaign, "a global community of people and projects using technology to he...
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The Bottom-Up View of Free Software
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The charmingly-named " Bottom-Up " is one of those blogs that I may not always agree with, but which I know will be intelligently ...
Of Android and the Fear of Fragmentation
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Many were sceptical when Google announced that it was launching another mobile platform. After all, some said, there are already multiple of...
03 March 2010
Schools for Scandal - the UK's
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Here's an interesting piece about software in UK schools. There are a couple of remarks that although incidental, are incredibly revea...
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01 March 2010
Act on ACTA: Write to Your MEPs
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As long-suffering readers will know, I've been banging on about the dangers to free software – and much else – of the Anti-Counterfeitin...
Which Licence for Open Source Digital Voting?
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Here's a provocative thought : We’ve dared to suggest that the GPL as it stands today, or for that manner any other common open source l...
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Microsoft Hoist by its Own Anti-Anti-Competitive Petard
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One of the decisive moments in computing history was when Microsoft was investigated for and found guilty of breaching US rules on anti-comp...
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