Barnes & Noble Charges Microsoft with Misusing Patents to Further an Anticompetitive Scheme Against Android Barnes and Noble’s strongly-worded response to Microsoft’s patent suit makes great reading, albeit rather depressing. They allege Microsoft is abusing patent complaints to engage in anti-competitive behaviour. Now where have I heard that fear expressed elsewhere…? CRS Report Withheld By [...]
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Having applied for membership as soon as the process was announced, I’m honoured to have been accepted today as a Member of The Document Foundation. Having been associated with OpenOffice.org for over a decade in a variety of capacities, I have a deep appreciation of what has been achieved both technically in creating a cross-platform [...]
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I’ve edited the article on balancing transparency and privacy in open source communities that appeared here and on CWUK earlier to reflect conversations on identi.ca and elsewhere and you’ll now find it in the Essays section.
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Here’s The Real Reason Apple Is Suing Samsung I think the point in this article – which echoes the central idea in Chris Anderson’s book “Free” – is much more insightful than it appears superficially. Apple and Microsoft are indeed tangling directly with Google’s “less than free” model that Bill Gurley has written about with [...]
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News just broke jointly from the US Department of Justice and the German Federal Cartel Office that they have directed CPTN to change the way they acquire Novell’s software patents so that the open source community is protected, just as OSI and FSFE requested Read my views on CWUK.
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Is Sugar Toxic? “I have eliminated refined sugar from my diet and eat as little as I possibly can,” Thompson told me, “because I believe ultimately it’s something I can do to decrease my risk of cancer.” Cantley put it this way: “Sugar scares me.” The Lustig video first alerted me to this issue, and [...]
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A Government Plan for IDs to Replace Online Passwords Presumably this is the simplified version and there’s a security professional who truly understands the nature of multi-factor authentication behind this development. Two things I expected to see mentioned and didn’t: open standards (it would be a massive mistake to select a proprietary approach) and national [...]
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A Legacy at Risk: How the new Ministry of Culture in Brazil reversed its digital agenda a new generation that has risen for the first time to debate the future of culture and technology policies in Brazil. Inadvertently, the new Minister Ana de Hollanda is contributing to the emergence of new generation of voices online. [...]
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I just got a very welcome e-mail – an acceptance for my talk at OSCON in Portland this July. I’ll be speaking on Thursday morning, on this subject: Most open source start-ups have some sort of lock on the code – dual licensing, contributor agreements, “open core” add-ons and more. But is it possible to [...]
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