Usually when I want to illustrate the capricious and arbitrary nature of cloud-provided services, I use other examples. But today Google has shown me that they too simply can’t be trusted to provide a service one relies upon. They are perfectly happy to leave you stranded without explanation or remedy. As well as shutting down [...]
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Increasing Mozilla Focus on Messaging and Communications on the Web: Re-integration of Mozilla Messaging While it’s not instantly obvious from Mitchell’s blog posting, which verges on concealment in plain sight, the deal here is that the Mozilla spin-out to make Thunderbird as dynamic as Firefox hasn’t worked and the project is being folded back into [...]
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Just confirmed I'll co-host this Wed on FLOSS Weekly: David Wheeler – Open Source Software at the US Dept of Defence, http://twit.tv/floss— Simon Phipps (@webmink) April 04, 2011
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Nokia says about Symbian: “We’re Open”. The New License Shows Otherwise. This looks bad. Not only has Nokia closed the source code to Symbian, it is pretending there’s no problem. I really hope they fix this fast. RSA: Anatomy of an Attack This detailed article makes for worrying reading. It details a growing approach to [...]
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One of the keys to a successful open source community is appropriate transparency. A community with strong values around transparency will also be likely to respect its participants privacy. Such a community will also be unlikely to have a copyright assignment benefiting a commercial party. Read why over on ComputerWorldUK.
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Sign in window of soon-to-close Borders store in Chicago. Someone's a little bitter http://t.co/rwmHPOD (pic) via @swansonian @bookofsand— Jack Schofield (@jackschofield) April 03, 2011
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For April Fool’s Day, Wikipedia editors collected such a wonderful set of links and articles that it seems a shame to let it perish in the daily update. So here, for posterity, is the Did You Know section from the home page of English Wikipedia for April 1st, 2011. Did you know… … that the [...]
Creepy app warns of an end to privacy The biggest threat to your privacy is not the disclosure of any one piece of data. It’s triangulation across all the data you’re disclosing. This piece of software is more performance art or prophecy than bad-faith threat, but it’s definitely a wake-up call to us all to [...]
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Microsoft is going to the EU about Google being anticompetitive. That's like Jack the Ripper going to the cops for getting mugged.— Joe Brockmeier (@jzb) March 31, 2011
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