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☞ Not Wild Just Alive
Posted on May 29, 2011 by Simon Phipps
Can We Kill Off This Myth That The Internet Is A Wild West That Needs To Be Tamed? Excellent article. The internet does not exist as untouchable. Morality and the rule of law do apply to the actions people do there. The question is whether those laws are appropriate. … And the proper response, if [...]
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☞ No Respect
Posted on May 28, 2011 by Simon Phipps
John Perry Barlow Tells Copyright Maximalists That They’ve Got The Fundamentals Wrong Great stuff from JPB here. Shame of it all is despite hist stature in all the domains of interest at eG8 (songwriter, entrepreneur, internet veteran, rights activist) he gets no respect from either the politicians or the copyright capitalists. BBC2 – All Watched [...]
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☝ eG8, Control Points and NameCoin
Posted on May 27, 2011 by Simon Phipps
As the pressure on and from political leaders to “regulate” the internet mounts, the need for basic infrastructure to switch from hierarchical to distributed control is becoming more urgent. The week has seen a number of developments that highlight the growing conflict between those with vested interests in centralised control of the web and those [...]
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☞ Future-proofing
Posted on May 27, 2011 by Simon Phipps
NameCoin at The Dot-bit Project With internet-control-freak politics everywhere now – just look at eG8 and PROTECTIP for example – the need for distributed infrastructure beyond the control of any entity is getting stronger and stronger. This new project uses the same approach (same code, in fact) as BitCoin and creates a distributed DNS where [...]
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☞ 500th Post
Posted on May 26, 2011 by Simon Phipps
This is the 500th posting on Webmink.Com, and it’s taken about a year to get here. Thanks to all my readers for supporting me this far in my post-corporate adventure! If you tolerate this… the commercial open source window of opportunity Interesting thinking about the opportunity for businesses to profit from open source involvement. Matthew [...]
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☞ From Around The World
Posted on May 25, 2011 by Simon Phipps
Google Summer of Code: Where are the students? Interested by how few European participants there are in GSoC. Does this reflect poor support for FOSS or a reluctance to sign on to a programme that’s widely seen as a disguised graduate recruiting activity? Updates on The Document Foundation Strong statement here from TDF shows they [...]
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☝ A liberating betrayal?
Posted on May 25, 2011 by Simon Phipps
Having suspended disbelief for as long as I could, my ability to take Microsoft at their word over Skype was shattered today by the announcement by Digium, sponsors of the Asterisk project, that they have been told they can no longer sell their Asterisk-Skype interaction module after July 26. In one move, we have illustrated [...]
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☞ Openish and Open
Posted on May 24, 2011 by Simon Phipps
JCP.next JSR submitted to the JCP I’m delighted to see these plans finally formalised – they have been around ever since Sun as proposals, but the acquisition got in the way. All the same, what matters is not the rules themselves so much as whether Oracle will actually stick to them when faced with a [...]
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☆ GagaGate, DRM and How To Cripple The Cloud
Posted on May 23, 2011 by Simon Phipps
I’ve been watching the music marketing stunt that Amazon have pulled today with some interest. The story is that Amazon US are selling the new Lady Gaga album Born This Way in digital-only form for $0.99 today only – the whole album for the price of a track (no luck in the UK where the [...]
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