I’ve heard a few conversations in the last week treating open source interchangeably with crowdsourcing. Despite sounding the same they are very different, and the key difference is the ownership of the outcome. Open source is not the same as crowdsourcing because open source community members are stakeholders whereas crowdsourcers get less than sharecroppers. Read [...]
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Intellectual Property Appears to Figure Prominently In Wikileaks Cablegate Michael Geist shrewdly observes that, far from being the exclusive domain of military diplomacy as might be deduced from coverage, the Wikileaks diplomatic cables uncover the fact that huge numbers of “intellectual property” issues are involved. Many of us have known for a long time that [...]
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Australian Government adds Wikileaks to banned website list With WikiLeaks back in the news, this story from 2009 is more relevant than ever. Having rendered WikiLeaks “illegal” last year, it’s now easy to target it without causing a stir. Banning links is simply pointless as it’s easily circumvented and inapplicable outside their jurisdiction. Once someone [...]
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The Science Behind Wikipedia’s Jimmy Appeal Why oh why are those a still there? Seems the answer is: because they work. Open source BI firms refute SAS CEO’s criticism SAS seems to be among the rapidly diminishing category of companies who still think that open source is a threat rather than an opportunity. Hurt Locker [...]
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Recommended reading: Control and Community by The 451 Group Lengthy and favourable review of the 451 report on “Control and Community” (which they have very kindly sent to me as well). I agree with Henrik that it’s an excellent report. Patent skullduggery: Tandberg rips off x264 algorithm While this may indeed be a nasty case [...]
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Leaving MariaDB/Monty Program Henrik Ingo has been a key persuader in the emergence of MariaDB, Monty Program AB and the Open Database Alliance from the consequences of the takeovers of MySQL, so his departure is a big symbolic blow. All the more so because his stated reason for leaving is that MariaDB is apparently not [...]
Hudson java.net migration status update After an unpleasant wake-up call (caused, I am assured, by an administrative error) where their whole community resource was shut down for a week or more without warning, recourse or an end-date, the Hudson community has “rehosted and carried on” independently of Oracle. Yes, I am aware that the java.net [...]
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[Versão em português no final - Portuguese version at the end] “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” In translating my article “Community Types” into Portuguese, Bruno, Ana and I ran into an interesting challenge. [...]
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Apache Wave Incubator Proposal Google apparently wants to donate Wave to Apache. This can work very well for orphaned projects (Sun donated Jini when it finally was obvious it had no future as a product but was important to customers, for example). This will be very interesting to watch. Diaspora private alpha just released I [...]
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