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13 January 2011
Why Google Isn't Evil (Today, at Least)
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The more powerful that Google becomes, and the more it needs to satisfy investors' desires for a good return on their money, the more it...
11 January 2011
Dimdim Lives up to its Name
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Dimdim is a Web-based collaboration platform that I signed up for ages ago, but never quite got around to using. Looks like I may have misse...
10 January 2011
Interview with Meedabyte
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I asked Glyn’s help to answer many questions that came to my mind in the latest few months that shown how tough the fight to keep the Intern...
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07 January 2011
When Will Quora Be Quorate?
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Almost without meaning to, I conducted a small experiment today. Over on Twitter, Brenda Wallace asked me a very good question: do you know...
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06 January 2011
Why Linux is Alpha and Omega
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I'm sure most people remember DEC - Digital Equipment Corporation - that later rebranded itself as the singularly unmemorable “Digital” ...
05 January 2011
Getting Down to the Business of Open Source
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Readers will doubtless be relieved to learn that I do not intend writing one of those tiresome “top ten predictions for open source in 2011”...
04 January 2011
2011: The Year of Firefox - or of Chrome?
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Everyone knows that there are lies, damned lies and Web analytics, but the latter can at least give a feel for what's going on. And the ...
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27 December 2010
Putin Orders Russian Move to GNU/Linux
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This looks huge: Глава правительства Владимир Путин подписал план перехода властных структур и федеральных бюджетников на свободное ПО. Сог...
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24 December 2010
A World-Beating Report on Global Open Source
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Something entitled “Report on the International Status of Open Source Software 2010” sounds pretty dry, as does its summary: The objective o...
23 December 2010
The Final Acts of ACTA
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Although the current excitement over the gradual release of the Wikileaks documents is justified in that it concerns what is undoubtedly an ...
Open Invention Network in the Spotlight
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Back in September, Mozilla made an announcement: This week Mozilla joined Open Invention Network as a licensee. OIN is an organization which...
22 December 2010
Jaron Lanier's Virtual Reality
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There is now a well-established class of writers about the digital world whom I fondly dub the Old Curmudgeons. Basically, they agree, thin...
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21 December 2010
Lessons from WikiLeaks: Decentralise, Decentralise, Decentralise
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Whether or not Wikileaks turns out to be a watershed in politics, there's another question of more immediate interest to the open source...
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20 December 2010
Why Governments Should Use Open Source Licensing
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Here's a wonderful cautionary tale: Systran created a specially adapted version of its Systran-Unix machine translation software for the...
17 December 2010
European Interoperability Framework v2 - the Great Defeat
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Long-suffering readers of this blog will know that the European Interoperability Framework has occupied me for some time - I wrote about the...
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16 December 2010
Microsoft: Hoist by its Own Petard
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I always look forward to reading Microsoft-funded research, because over the years it's evolved into a kind of game. The results - of co...
15 December 2010
Can Open Source Be Trusted?
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Theo de Raadt is one of the key hackers outside the mainstream GNU/Linux world. Here's his self-penned bio: I am the founder of OpenBSD ...
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14 December 2010
Linux Embeds Itself Yet Further
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One of the many confusingly-similar groups in the open source space is Linaro: a Not For Profit (NFP) organization that aims to make embedde...
13 December 2010
Big Tobacco: Saving Lives is "Expropriation"
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Although I knew that there is yet another trade treaty being discussed between New Zealand, the US and others, I hadn't heard about thi...
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Netflix Opens up About Open Source
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Even though it is generally accepted that open source is used widely throughout the business world, it doesn't hurt having a few high-pr...
11 December 2010
Whatever Happened to the EU Interoperability Policy?
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As readers of this blog will know, interoperability is a key issue in Europe at the moment. We are still waiting for the imminent version 2 ...
09 December 2010
I, For One, Welcome Our New Patent Overlords
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A significant event took place yesterday: potentially the biggest software patent troll of all has finally woken from its slumbers: Today In...
08 December 2010
Not All Chrome Glisters
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The unveiling of Google's Chrome OS is rather extraordinary - not so much for what was announced, but how. After all, the first details ...
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06 December 2010
Things Fall Apart; the Centre Cannot Hold
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One of the many fascinating aspects of the Wikileaks #cablegate saga is that, unusually, computer technology plays a central rather than per...
02 December 2010
The Limits to Openness
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Unless you live in certain countries or read certain newspapers, you will have been deluged over the last few days with “revelations” from t...
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