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29 March 2011
Piracy is not Counterfeiting: Updating IPRED
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As promised, I append below a near-final draft of my response to the European Commission's consultation on IPRED. Once again, I urge you...
28 March 2011
Pig-headedness, not Piracy, Killed Recorded Music
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An extremely feeble article in the Guardian parrots the recording industry's line that piracy is killing music: Global recorded music ...
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27 March 2011
Why Microsoft Costs the World $500 Billion a Year
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Here's another of those entertaining IDC reports commissioned by Microsoft: Today, global research firm IDC issued a new white paper whi...
25 March 2011
Enclosing the Ocean Commons
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The oceans belong to everyone - well, more or less. That is, they form a classic commons. But of course, that fact doesn't stop people...
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Ready for the IPRED Consultation?
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This is just some quick advance warning that the deadline for submitting comments to the IPRED consultation is drawing near: 31 March 2011. ...
23 March 2011
How Open is the Open Networking Foundation?
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Time for some more of that fashionable “open” goodness: Six companies that own and operate some of the largest networks in the world — Deuts...
22 March 2011
The End of Copyright's Social Contract
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Copyright is based on a social contract. In return for a government-enforced, time-limited monopoly, artists create - the idea being that w...
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21 March 2011
Sharing the Credit for Sharing
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Time magazine has one of those tiresome list thingies: "10 Ideas That Will Change the World" (pretentious, moi?). To its credit, ...
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Finally Calling Time on Piracy FUD
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One of the striking features of reports purporting to estimate the “damage” caused by piracy - both of software and content - is that withou...
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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...
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