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24 September 2010
Why is Dell UK Making it so Difficult?
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Remember IdeaStorm – “Where Your Ideas Reign” – Dell's brave venture into the scary world of crowdsourcing? Amazingly, it's still go...
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22 September 2010
Opening up Computer Studies in the UK
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One of the biggest disgraces in this country is the way that computing is taught - or rather, the way it is not taught. I know as a parent f...
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Not Just ACTA: Stop the Gallo Report
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One of the slightly depressing aspects of fighting intellectual monopolists is that they have lots of money. This means that they can fund t...
21 September 2010
Intellectual Monopolies, the Open Net and ACTA
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Well, it was bound to come one day, but it's still shocking : A group of senators want to hand the U.S. Department of Justice the power ...
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19 September 2010
Hearing Colours
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Wonderful post from a blind person about the effect of owning an iPhone: The other night, however, a very amazing thing happened. I downloa...
17 September 2010
BSA's Piracy Numbers: Less than They Seem
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You can argue all you want with words, which are vague and fuzzy, but numbers have hard edges: numbers are facts. Except, of course, they a...
16 September 2010
Android: Opening A Pandora's Box of Licensing
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Like many, I have watched with satisfaction the rise and rise of the Android mobile phone platform. After all, at its heart lies Linux, and ...
14 September 2010
Banging on about Mozilla Drumbeat
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Six months ago, for all the best possible reasons, I rather tore into Mozilla's Drumbeat project. This led to some useful dialogue with...
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12 September 2010
Microsoft, Enemy of Human Rights in Russia?
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Here's a nice little moral fable. Lake Baikal is a wonder, the world's oldest and deepest lake, with many unique species. But Vlad...
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10 September 2010
Project Canvas Will be *Linux* Based
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I've been pretty sceptical - and critical - of the BBC's TV over IP efforts, including Project Canvas : Project Canvas is a proposed...
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09 September 2010
Perfidious Albania
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I've been very lucky in my travels. I've visited many of the obvious places, and quite a few of the less obvious ones, including ex...
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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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