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23 November 2010
Open Data Good, Open Source Bad?
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Last Friday, I went along to what I thought would be a pretty routine press conference about open data - just the latest in a continuing dri...
22 November 2010
Why ACTA is a Doomed
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There is a great new paper out with the title "ACTA as a New Kind of International IP Law-Making": The ACTA negotiations are impo...
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MPs' Expenses: They're At It Again
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Openness is inherently political, because it dares to assert that we little people have a right to see what the powerful would hide. There...
Jauchzet: Bach's Organ Music Free Online
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A few months ago, Musopen ran a fundraiser on Kickstarter: Musopen is a non-profit dedicated to providing copyright free music content: mus...
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21 November 2010
No Art Please, You're Not British
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I thought we had got beyond this daftness : A Cellist was held at Heathrow Airport and questioned for 8 hours this week. A terrorist suspec...
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Digital Society vs. Digital Economy Act
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Here's an interesting move : Britons will be forced to apply online for government services such as student loans, driving licences, pas...
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20 November 2010
Tim BL: Open Standards Must be Royalty-Free
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Yesterday I went along to the launch of the next stage of the UK government's open data initiative, which involved releasing information...
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18 November 2010
Microsoft: "Linux at the End of its Life Cycle"
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Regular readers of this blog will know that I've tracked the rather painful history of attempts to increase the deployment of free soft...
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A Peek Inside the EU's Digital Inner Circle
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The European Commission looms large in these pages. But despite that importance, it remains - to me, at least - an opaque beast. Hugely-impo...
17 November 2010
Can You Feel the Tension?
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There's an important conference taking place in Brussels next week: "Tensions between Intellectual Property Rights and the ICT sta...
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16 November 2010
Will Mark Zuckerberg Prove He's Open Source's BFF?
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Although I don't use it much myself, I've heard that Facebook is quite popular in some quarters. This makes its technological moves ...
15 November 2010
A Great Indian Takeaway
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As you may have noticed, I've been writing quite a lot about the imminent European Interoperability Framework (EIF), and the extent to w...
Beyond a Joke: On the Road to China
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By now, you will have read all about the #twitterjoketrial . But you may not have come across this story : On 17 of October, Wang Yi retwee...
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German Court: Links Can Infringe on Copyright
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Here's one of those tedious court decisions that show the judges don't really get this new-fangled Internet thing: Pünktlich zum ei...
Microsoft: Super - But Not Quite Super Enough
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Once upon a time, the Netcraft Web server market share was reported upon eagerly every month for the fact that it showed open source soundly...
12 November 2010
Opening up Knowledge
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I know you probably didn't notice, but I posted very little on this blog last week - nothing, in fact. This was not down to me going “me...
Time for a "Turing/Berners-Lee" Day?
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On this day , in 1937: Alan Turing’s paper entitled "On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungs-problem" appea...
Google Bowls a Googly
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One of the most shocking aspects of Oracle's lawsuit against Google alleging patent and copyright infringement was its unexpected nature...
11 November 2010
A (Digital) Hymn to Eric Whitacre
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Eric Whitacre is that remarkable thing: a composer able to write classical music that is at once completely contemporary and totally approac...
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10 November 2010
Xanadu and the Digital Pleasure-Dome
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I consider myself fortunate to have been around at the time of the birth of the Internet as a mass medium, which I date to the appearance of...
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Microsoft Demonstrates why FRAND Licensing is a Sham
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A little while back I was pointing out how free software licences aren't generally compatible with Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminato...
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09 November 2010
A Patent No-brainer, Mr Willetts
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There has been understandable excitement over David Cameron's announcement - out of the blue - that the UK government would be looking a...
Who's Lobbying Whom?
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One of the frustrating things about being on the side of right, justice, logic and the rest is that all of these are trumped by naked inside...
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Is it Time for Free Software to Move on?
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A remarkable continuity underlies free software, going all the way back to Richard Stallman's first programs for his new GNU project. An...
08 November 2010
A Tale of Two Conferences
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I was invited to give a talk at two recent conferences, the Berlin Commons Conference , and FSCONS 2010 . It's generally a pleasure to ...
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