Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality Important article from Tim Berners-Lee that needs to be brought to the attention of legislators globally. Key quote: Given the many ways the Web is crucial to our lives and our work, disconnection is a form of deprivation of liberty. Looking back to [...]
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O artigo “Tipos de Comunidades” está agora disponível traduzido para o Português na seção Essays. Muito obrigado a Ana Whitby por doar seu tempo.
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WebID 1.0 Interesting proposal for a lightweight mechanism for authenticated personal identity on the internet using existing web mechanisms. Does the TSA ever catch terrorists? “Does the TSA Ever Catch Terrorists? If they do, for some reason they won’t admit it.”
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Government suppliers may be ordered to open up data I’ll believe it when I see it. The whole point of outsourcing in government contexts (and not just IT – think of military security in Iraq) is to push the dirty business of actually getting things done behind a contractual firewall where they can safely shelter [...]
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Iniciando um esforço de disponibilizar o conteúdo dos artigos do Webmink em outras línguas, começamos hoje a postar as traduções para Português Brasileiro. O primeiro artigo, Liberdade de Software Significa Benefícios para as Empresas já está disponível. Em breve, outros artigos serão disponibilizados!
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I pointed yesterday to an interesting comment about contributor agreements attached to a report about Michael Meeks speech a LPC. Another comment to the same article by Meeks himself casts light on another, much more serious issue for open source communities; bilateral agreements. Read on at ComputerWorldUK.
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I had a request on Identica to make one of my essays available under a Creative Commons licence so it could be translated. I thought that was such a good idea I’ve now applied a Creative Commons licence to the whole Essays section. I’d welcome any translations and will gladly post them alongside the originals [...]
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The conversation around LWN’s coverage of Michael Meeks’ talk at the Linux Plumbers Conference (sadly paywalled until now but available today and worth reading all the way through) provoked interesting comments. The subject of the discussion is LibreOffice and the code ownership issues which provoked the fork. But what caught my eye was a comment [...]
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Should Companies That Use Open Source Software Pay a Tithe? They should certainly budget to obtain service and ensure they pay the companies and people that make the software upon which they depend, whether they need support or not. If they don’t, it might not get updated again. And I like the idea of budgeting [...]
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Fair, Reasonable, Non-Discriminatory – surely that all has to be good stuff? RAND sounds so good. It shows up in the negotiation of licenses for patents that apply to standards, and it stands for “Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory“, excellent words that it’s hard to criticise. Sometimes it shows up as FRAND, with “Fair” in front making [...]
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