Oops: No copied Java code or weapons of mass destruction found in Android Ed Burnette takes a look at the allegation from a lobbyist that Google is guilty of copyright infringement in Android and finds it is at best trivial and not as advertised and at worst a dirty smear attempt. Brazil’s Copyright Reform: the [...]
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Legacy procurement rules that insist on indemnity from open source subscription suppliers are an unnecessary barrier to open source adoption. Read about this on ComputerWorldUK
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I’ve reached São Paulo ready to speak at Campus Party tomorrow after Steve Wozniak in the evening. Here’s the abstract for the talk: Lessons for copyright reform from open source software The open source revolution started because hackers wanted the freedom to work together to make great software. But it’s grown up and become the [...]
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Before Christmas I reported that the Open Source Initiative (OSI) had written to the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) asking them to investigate the acquisition of Novell assets by the CPTN Group as a possibly anti-competitive move by CPTN’s four members. I described that move as “unprecedented” because it was the first time OSI had [...]
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People’s Choice Award 2010 – opensource.com The OpenSource.Com website that Red Hat run is having a ballot to select the top contributor for 2010 – vote now! A Year After: The Open Source Projects Another where-are-they-now post from Eduardo now he’s left Oracle. This one documents many of Sun’s open source projects and there current [...]
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On the map Interesting slide show illustrating the power of OpenStreetMap to overcome political bias that prevents the real world being documented. Legal Thuggery, or Law as Transaction Cost "Asserting rights where you have none, and implying the threat of litigation behind them, may well be an ethical violation."
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I’m in Latvia today speaking at the Latvian Open Technology Association annual conference – my slides are online. The speaker before me was from the government and made an important announcement; that from now on, all government departments in Latvia must accept documents in ODF. It’s not just Latvia. Moves like this are in progress [...]
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One of the key control points in enterprise software is the provisioning or IDM software. It’s the point all the threads of directory, authentication, authorisation and provisioning come together and it’s the part that the proprietary vendors are least willing to surrender to that great deposer of control points, community-based open source software. When ForgeRock [...]
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"Word²" by Massively Fun This game is massively multiplayer Scrabble on an infinite board. It plays in the browser smoothly, and I'm finding it utterly compelling.
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A Walled Wide Web for Nervous Autocrats I have been making the core point that this good WSJ article makes in my discussions with governments all over the world for the last six years, and it always makes an impression. It also transfers to the commercial world. The reason you need contractual indemnity when you [...]
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