Woot calls out Associated Press for plagiarism Lovely Woot piece today, pointing out that if Woot quoted AP the way AP quoted Woot, they would demand payment. AP’s position is ridiculous becuase it assumes AP is in some way a different class of publisher to the rest of us. Rather hoping Woot don’t let it [...]
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Groklaw – Open Core and OSI Pamela picks up both my article and Mark’s and asks the obvious question. For the record, Mark is wrong to assert that I think only copyleft licenses are proper open source licenses. As for the “what does freedom mean” question Pamela is asking, that one will run and run [...]
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Video Prison: Why Patents Might Threaten Free Online Video | NewAmerica.net Important explanation of why the patent thicket around video formats on the internet is a threat to both democracy and innovation. Worth your time to read this. (tags: Video CODEC Patents Freedom Creativity Innovation) Saying it out loud: IBM is moving to Firefox as [...]
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Project Harmony looks to improve contribution agreements I hope to be able to participate in this activity, if only to ensure that it does not become a validation for the practice of using “contributor agreements” by corporations “hosting” open source projects. Contributor agreements are bad for communities, because they give one community member more rights [...]
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