☞ The Power of Pedantry

To Microsoft, Open Source means “Windows Encumbered” Just because Microsoft is busily embracing open source, that doesn’t mean they have any interest in software freedom, as Andy Oliver points out. (tags: Microsoft OpenSource FOSS freedom) Separating Fact from Fiction: My Fair Copyright Proposals Excellent and balanced set of proposals from Michael Geist for copyright reform [...]

☞ Problems With WebM?

The announcement last week at Google IO of the creation of the WebM project and the release of the VP8 codec was a positive and welcome development, finally offering an alternative to the royalty-liable H.264 and to Theora. WebM arises from Google’s purchase of ON2 last year and had been widely anticipated. Google did their [...]

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