Minimal Competence: Data Access, Data Ownership, and Sharecropping “The ability to get out the data you put in is the bare minimum. All of it, at high fidelity, in a reasonable amount of time. Asking people to accept anything else is sharecropping. It’s a bad deal.” — Interesting to have this come round again after [...]
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OpenStack Community Update Excellent progress is being made in the OpenStack community, including implementation of support for VirtualBox, which I asked for in both the OpenStack and VirtualBox interviews on FOLSS Weekly. Huge thanks to Justin Santa Barbara. Tru Thoughts Jazz MP3 Sampler Pretty decent selection of jazz tracks free to US account-holders on Amazon [...]
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I’m very sad to report that, as expected, it proved necessary for the OpenSolaris Governing Board to collectively resign today. The motion was as follows: Motion concerning dissolution of the OGB Whereas Oracle has continued to ignore requests to appoint a liaison to work with the OGB concerning the future of OpenSolaris development and our [...]
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Electronic Voting Researcher Arrested Over Anonymous Source “About four months ago, Ed Felten blogged about a research paper in which Hari Prasad, Rop Gonggrijp, and I detailed serious security flaws in India’s electronic voting machines. Indian election authorities have repeatedly claimed that the machines are tamperproof, but we demonstrated important vulnerabilities by studying a machine [...]
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Software patents are broken and the only possible justification for having them is self-defence (which is itself a risky accumulation of armaments that can easily fall into the wrong hands). It seems plenty of important members of both the Linux Foundation and the Open Invention Network make public assertions claiming they believe that, so there [...]
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Over 40 free tracks! There has to be a new season coming as far as the music industry is concerned, because there’s a tide of free sample tracks both on Amazon US and Amazon UK this weekend. The UK selection is heavy with old names you might have expected to be in comfortable retirement by [...]
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Digital Bang: Sub Pop's Amazon Sampler A small gift while I take a few days off. A rare Amazon UK free MP3 sampler (people located outside the UK need not even try, Amazon UK uses an IP whitelist). This is worth downloading just for the Iron & Wine track. (tags: Amazon MP3 Music Sampler)
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Lawsuit Raises Questions about Open Invention Network, Linux Foundation Tweets get as much coverage as interviews these days, it seems. Tweets lack nuance and usually lack context and do not form a good basis for journalism (or indeed spin-doctoring) without additional discussion in person. The author of this article quotes what I said on Twitter [...]
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Google vs Oracle ≠ open vs closed, or good vs evil While Matthew Aslett’s essay (above) is another useful contribution to the discussion that I recommend you read, his bias towards a commercial view of open source leads him to dismiss the emerging pattern and assert that each crocodile attack is an isolated incident that [...]
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Oracle/Google: the strategy behind Sun, Oracle and the OSS implications This whole Oracle-copies-SCO mess has many degrees of complexity – historical, legal, technical, political and personal – and I personally think there’s little point engaging in speculation about outcomes and strategies until more of the cards are on the table. Having said that, there are [...]
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