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09 September 2010
Welcome to the Civic Commons
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One of the core reasons why sharing works is that it spreads the effort, and avoids the constant re-invention of the wheel. One area that se...
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08 September 2010
Why ACTA is Not a Victimless Treaty
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The best thing I have read about the current brouhaha surrounding Craiglist's shutdown of its “Adult Services” section is danah boyd'...
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Is it Time to Take Your (Android) Tablets?
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However much I dislike Apple's obsession with control - the very antithesis of openness - I have to admit that its iPad is an important ...
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Taking Openness to the Next Level
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Yesterday I wrote about one particular issue with standards: the fact that the associated patent licensing (if applicable) can shut out fre...
07 September 2010
Open Access Meets Open Archaeology
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How could I resist OA meets OA thanks to OA ? The OA Library has been developed by Oxford Archaeology in order to allow us to distribute gre...
ACTA: Please Do What Simon Says...
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I was about to write a long and passionate post imploring you to contact your MEPs one last time in order to get them to sign up to the impo...
06 September 2010
Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory...Ain't
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One of the inescapable facts of free software is that it involves a lot of law - far more than innocent hackers might expect when they settl...
The Value of Clear Code is Clear
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Here's an interesting move in the highly important area of climate science: We are pleased to announce the creation of the Climate Code ...
03 September 2010
Directgov Review - No Time to Lose
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One of the heartening trends that I've noted in recent years is a gradually opening up of government around the world - in both directio...
02 September 2010
The Truth about Fakes (and Piracy)
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Here's a fascinating item : A new EU-funded report has declared that it is OK to buy fake designer goods. The study, co-written by a Hom...
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Mahara: Who'd Have Thought?
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One of the things that warms the cockles of my heart is the widening ripple of open source. Starting, as it did, with core system software,...
Could this Lawsuit Undermine the GNU GPL?
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As I've noted before, it's pretty well established that the GNU GPL stands up in the courts: gone are the days when detractors of co...
Foreworld as Foretaste
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I'm am currently staggering to the end of Neal Stephenson's The Confusion , loving every minute of this impossible, wandering, hyper...
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01 September 2010
Ukraine to Create is Own GNU/Linux Distro
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I've been writing for a while about Russia's on-off idea of creating its own GNU/Linux distro. It looks like Ukraine is following...
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31 August 2010
What Paul Allen and Larry Ellison Have in Common
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At first sight, this extraordinary legal action against most of the digital world's leading lights might seem one of a kind: Interval Li...
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19 August 2010
Don't be Neutral about Net Neutrality
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A little while ago, I noted that Ofcom was seeking input on the subject of Net neutrality. I also promised to post my own submission, which ...
16 August 2010
Oracle Scorns Open Source: How to Respond?
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This was bound to happen, of course. Things were going too well. At a time when Google is activating 200,000 Android phones a day, and Andro...
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13 August 2010
Greed vs. Survival: Which Prevails?
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The global environmental catastrophe that we all face is, of course, a typical tragedy of the (analogue) commons. Resources that are held i...
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11 August 2010
Linux Foundation Makes Enterprise Open Source Boring
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In the early days of free software, the struggle was just to get companies to try this new and rather unconventional approach, without worry...
09 August 2010
The Saga of Git: Lightning does Strike Twice
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Every now and then, a shiver runs through the Linux community as people realise afresh that the entire edifice has a single point of failure...
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The Dead Microsoft Sketch
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The first time I was really impressed by Microsoft was back in the 1980s. I was being given a private demonstration of a hot new program for...
05 August 2010
Is Google About to Sell the Internet Down the River?
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Net neutrality is turning from a boring, irrelevant issue that few people thought about much into one of the key issues for today's Inte...
02 August 2010
El Pueblo Unido...
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Videos are proving to be a key element in ensuring that policing is fair and honest, as recent events in the UK have demonstrated. But ther...
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Can You Make Money from Open Source+Open Data?
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One of the interesting trends over the last few months has been the increasing activity in the field of open data. In the UK, this has been ...
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Firefox Loses Market Share Again: Is That a Problem?
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Understandably, commentators are getting excited over the fact that according to one survey Internet Explorer has gained browser market sha...
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