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30 April 2010
When We Can Copy *Analogue* Artefacts...
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The recent battle over the Digital Economy Bill has focussed renewed attention on the area of copying digital artefacts – music and films, f...
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A Refresher Course on Alfresco
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The ECM company Alfresco ought to occupy a special place in the open source pantheon for readers of this blog. As well as being one of the l...
29 April 2010
Is South Korea's Crazy Experiment Ending?
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I've written a number of times about the curious experiment South Korea has been conducting: making its entire governmental and financi...
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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 ...
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