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29 April 2010
Does HP + Palm = Facepalm?
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When I first read the news that HP was buying Palm for $1.2 billion, my first reaction was that HP had lost its marbles (“clueless” was how ...
27 April 2010
Saving Clay Shirky
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I am not an unthinking fan of everything Clay Shirky says, but I do find much of the stuff he writes thought provoking. In particular, I fo...
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26 April 2010
EU Open Source Procurement Guidelines
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Public sector procurement is becoming a real battleground for open source in Europe. There have been few successes, but lots of groundwork h...
Why Making Money from Free Software Matters
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Free software began as a political movement: its central aim was – and remains – the propagation of freedom. Later, it became a development...
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23 April 2010
Tussling for the Soul of EU's Digital Economy Agenda
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A little while ago I wrote about the worrying signs that the imminent Digital Economy Agenda, currently being drawn up by Neelie Kroes, was ...
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22 April 2010
For Openness – and Open Source - We Need Transparency
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Transparency is a close cousin of openness, and it's becoming increasingly, er, clear that we need the former in order to obtain the lat...
21 April 2010
One Act is over for ACTA: How Will the Drama End?
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Rather remarkably, a draft version of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has been released [.pdf] by the European Union, one of ...
20 April 2010
Richard Stallman: "I Wished I Had Killed Myself"
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I received a review copy of Steven Levy's seminal book Hackers back in the 1980s, but never read it. I did, though, keep it, because i...
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19 April 2010
Open Source Drug Discovery
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One of the inspirations for free software was the scientific method. So it's deeply ironic that science finds itself increasingly unab...
Down the EU Piracy Rabbit-hole
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Last week I wrote about a report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) that examined the reliability of recorded music industry...
16 April 2010
Darkness Visible: Making Patent Absurdity Patent
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Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that I write a lot about software patents. The reason is simple: they represent probably the g...
15 April 2010
How Hard Can it Be? DIY OCW
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One of the miracles of free software is that it always begins with one or two people saying: “hey, how hard can it be?” The miracle is that ...
Digital Economy Act: Built on Sand
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One of the many frustrating aspects of the recent debate on the Digital Economy Bill was the constant repetition of two major inaccuracies. ...
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Is That Embedded Software GPL-Compliant?
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Open source software is everywhere these days. In particular, Linux is being used increasingly to power embedded systems of all kinds. That&...
Putting Spotify on the Spot
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There has been some criticism that Spotify doesn't really bring in much money for the artists concerned (the labels, of course, do fine...
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12 April 2010
Time to Re-Boot British Politics
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So, the forces of stupidity, arrogance, greed, laziness and downright bloody-mindedness prevailed, and the Digital Economy Bill has turned f...
ACTA's Acts of Stupidity
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Alongside the UK's Tom Watson , New Zealand's Clare Curran is shaping up as one of the leading net-savvy politicians in the world. ...
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07 April 2010
Yet Another Letter to My MP
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It seems my MP was not at the Second Reading of the Digital Economy Bill. Here's what I've just fired off: Following my long conve...
06 April 2010
Nigeria, India, China: Our Copyright-Free Future
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Here is another of Kevin Kelly's brilliant posts, but this time it's not about deep philosophical issues, but something really munda...
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Last Chance: Write to MPs on Digital Economy Bill
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Now is probably our last chance to influence our MPs on the Digital Economy Bill. Here's what I've sent : Although the main news to...
05 April 2010
The DRM of Government Policy
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One area that I have been covering increasingly is that of open government. The parallels with the other opens are not immediate, but there...
Where and Whither Mozilla?
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The importance of Mozilla and its Firefox browser went up a notch last week. For it was then that it became clear that Microsoft has little ...
02 April 2010
RMS and Tim Berners-Lee: Separated at Birth?
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We all knew that Sir Tim was a total star, choosing to give away the Web rather than try to make oodles of billions from it. Some of us eve...
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Microsoft's Gift to Open Standards
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Long-time readers of this blog will recall the bitter fight over the submission of Microsoft's OOXML formats to the ISO. To the dismay o...
01 April 2010
Last Chance to Save BBC from DRM
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Six months ago, I wrote about a shabby attempt to slip through a major change at the BBC that would entail adding DRM to its HDTV output. Th...
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