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19 March 2011
Ethics of Intellectual Monopolies: the Video
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I was pleased to discover last night that the video of my talk at FSCONS last November is now available: Glyn Moody - Keynote: Ethics of I...
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18 March 2011
Open Source's Kith and Kindred
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One of the things that interests me is the way that the ideas underlying open source are being applied in other fields. That's something...
Nokia: What's Missing from this Picture?
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One of the reasons why I find the whole Nokia saga so fascinating is that the reasoning behind what is clearly a move of huge importance for...
How Can Open Source Survive in a Post-PC World?
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We are entering a post-PC world – or so we are told. But is that good or bad for open source? The open source world has been fixated so long...
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17 March 2011
Berlin Declaration: More Than They Think
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So the publishing dinosaurs have got together and produced an egg: The Berlin Declaration on the Future of the Digital Press. Unfortunatel...
14 March 2011
Copyright Bullying is in the DNA
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Craig Venter is a bit tiresome at times, but indubitably clever. And to prove his cleverness (again) when he was creating artificial life, ...
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Why We Should Care about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
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When I first started writing about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in 2007, practically no one had heard of it. That wasn'...
11 March 2011
Time to Break Out the Digital Quills Again...
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A couple of weeks ago I posted in full the near-final version of my submission to the UK Independent Review of "IP" and Growth (so...
09 March 2011
Mozilla Moves On
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Back in August last year, I wrote the following: we no longer live in a simple binary world of Internet Explorer as the dominant player and ...
07 March 2011
Nokia's Not-so-cute Qt Move
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When I was reviewing the fall-out from Nokia's decision to stake its future on Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 system, I mentioned paren...
Moving beyond the Microsoft Monoculture
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For the last 15 years we have been living in a Microsoft monoculture, which has had very real knock-on consequences for everyone online – no...
04 March 2011
More Fun with Anti-Open Source FUD
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One of the oddest aspects of open source is that unlike any comparable computing field that I am aware of, it has been stalked for years by ...
Malware at the Heart of the BBC's Decline
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Anyone who has been following me on Twitter or identi.ca will have noticed that I have a bee in my bonnet - actually, make that a Beeb in ...
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Putting China on the Innovation Map
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Rather patronisingly, the West has tended to regard China as little better than a copy-cat in advanced technologies, not least on the Web. ...
02 March 2011
Open Source by Any Other Name...
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As I noted on Tuesday, the UK government has been pretty much a total disaster when it comes to using open source. Indeed, it has arguably b...
01 March 2011
True Open Standards; Open Source Next?
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One of the ironies of this column, which appears in a UK title, and is about the use of open source software in large enterprises, is that t...
28 February 2011
Submission to UK Independent Review of "IP" and Growth
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As promised in my previous post, I include below my submission to the UK Independent Review of "IP" and Growth. Submission to Inde...
23 February 2011
UK Independent Review of "IP" and Growth
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the UK's ”Independent Review of Intellectual Property and Growth”, which is currently soliciting sub...
17 February 2011
The Economic Consequences of Piracy
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I've noted elsewhere that there is a major piece of FUD being put about by content producers: that piracy causes massive damage to a co...
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16 February 2011
Nokiasoft: Who are the Open Source Winners and Losers?
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The dust has barely settled on the announcement of the major deal between Nokia and Microsoft, weird possibilities have been and gone, and w...
15 February 2011
The Death of (Analogue) Patents
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In a post last week, I wrote about the current obsession with “IP”, and noted some moves to make it more suitable for the digital age. In th...
10 February 2011
AllJoyn Open Source
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One of the sure signs that open source has entered the mainstream is when companies not normally associated with this approach starting gett...
08 February 2011
The Future of UK Copyright
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As you may have noticed, the topic of “IP” - “intellectual property” - seems increasingly to the fore these days. Actually, that's not r...
07 February 2011
Piracy/Counterfeit Bait and Switch
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As I've noted before, one of the tricks used in the current ACTA negotiations is to blur the lines between counterfeiting and piracy, a...
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UK Cyberwar - or UK Cyberwallies?
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One of the most embarrassing features of the dotcom era was a habit of putting “cyber” in front of everything to make it look hot and trendy...
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