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04 August 2011
One Thing We Know about the Shady Rats
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The news about "Operation Shady Rat" has naturally provoked much interest (as it was intended to....) After all, who could not f...
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Hey, BPI, Meet the New Rule: Show Evidence
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After the UK Government unveiled its pretty reasonable response to the Hargreaves Report ( analysed by me yesterday), the lobbying begins :...
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03 August 2011
Reviewing the UK Government Response to the Hargreaves Review
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I've written a number of columns about the Hargreaves Review, and its generally sensible ideas. But, ultimately, those proposals mean no...
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02 August 2011
Time to Adopt the Brazilian Model of Public Software?
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A couple of weeks ago, the innocuously-named “Public Administration Committee” of the House of Commons published a rather more surprisingly-...
01 August 2011
Why the UK Cover-up of ISP Spying Proposal?
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The documents obtained by FoI requests that I referred to in an earlier post today have proved richer than we expected: Previously confide...
Something Rotten in the State of...Brazil?
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For many years, Brazil has been a shining beacon of how to do it right when it came to openness and sharing. For example, in the field of o...
It's Good to Share
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The passing of the Digital Economy Act remains one of the worst blots on the British political system in recent years. As anyone who had th...
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30 July 2011
Revolutions
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On the first LP I ever owned was Tchaikovsky's Serenade, Ravel's Bolero and Smetana's "Bartered Bride" Overture. It w...
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Mozilla's Next Firefox Moment?
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Last year, there was a lot of handwringing about Firefox's continuing loss of market share. This was only by relatively small amounts, b...
29 July 2011
Why Defensive Patents are a Contradiction in Terms
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I've been writing about why software patents are bad from every viewpoint for far too long, but I'm heartened by the recent upswing ...
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28 July 2011
Not So Fast, FAST
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FAST - "Federation Against Software Theft" - is manifestly one of the more risible copyright organisations, since it doesn't e...
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27 July 2011
The Art of Sharing Online
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As has been noted many times before, the Internet is essentially a global, digital copier. Anything that is placed online is, by definition...
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What's the Father of the Wiki Doing at Nike?
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The idea of the wiki is now so pervasive that we rather take it for granted - "oh, let's just use a wiki" is a typical cry the...
26 July 2011
Why We Should - and Can - Abolish All Patents
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As long-suffering readers will know, I've been warning about the growing problem of patent thickets in the field of software for some ti...
25 July 2011
Time to Break up Big, Bad Apple?
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One of the unusual characteristics of the computer industry in recent years is the rapid rise of companies to almost complete market dominan...
22 July 2011
Why Are Hackers Becoming So Angry?
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You may have noticed a bit of a trend recently. Groups of hackers are getting hold of stuff that has hitherto been kept locked up, and makin...
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21 July 2011
An Open Government Data Licence for the World?
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As I've noted before, the UK government is now arguably the leader when it comes to open data. Of course, that's not really the poin...
20 July 2011
Myhrvold Hoist By His Own (Patented) Petard
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There's a column doing the rounds at the moment that is generating some interest. It comes from the King of the Patent Trolls, Nathan ...
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How Should We Liberate Knowledge?
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Here's an interesting situation at the online academic repository JSTOR: Last fall and winter, JSTOR experienced a significant misuse of...
How Should We Liberate Knowledge?
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Here's an interesting situation at the online academic repository JSTOR: Last fall and winter, JSTOR experienced a significant misuse of...
11 July 2011
To Defend Android Google Must Attack Software Patents
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Android is under serious threat. Not so much commercially, where it continues to trounce its rivals and take an ever-larger market share aro...
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07 July 2011
Open Season on Open Data
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Well, it seems to be Open Data week here on Computerworld UK. After my report on the Open Knowledge Conference in Berlin, one of whose princ...
05 July 2011
Data Portals Become Fashionable: Time to Worry?
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Yesterday I mentioned Nigel Shadbolt, who has played a leading role in the opening up of government data in the UK. By chance, I've just...
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04 July 2011
The Open Knowledge Foundation Comes of Age
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The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) was launched just over seven years ago: May 24th 2004: The Open Knowledge Foundation was launched today ...
02 July 2011
The Rise and Fall and Rise of HTML
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HTML began life as a clever hack of a pre-existing approach. As Tim Berners-Lee explains in his book, “Weaving the Web”: Since I knew it wou...
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