Open source .NET mimic rises from Novell ashes I’d heard Miguel was looking for funding to do this so I’m not surprised, but I still offer him warm congratulations and the best of luck in his new business. IT History Society I don’t know whether to be excited this exists, depressed that I know so [...]
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Yesterday I read LWN’s (paywalled but accessible from here) interview with Mark Shuttleworth, where he is quoted as saying that the formation of The Document Foundation (TDF) and its launch of LibreOffice “led Oracle to finally decide to stop OpenOffice development and lay off 100 employees.” Mark says this in the context of his new [...]
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Cloud computing is not just disruptive to the software market; it’s also disruptive to software freedom advocacy. Software freedom has been defined as being present when any recipient of a software binary has the freedom to also use the source code for any purpose, study the source code, modify it and distribute it themselves. Cloud [...]
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If you’re at the Open Source Business Conference, OSBC, in San Francisco today and tomorrow, you have three opportunities to hear me speak (or three sessions to scrupulously avoid, depending on your taste). They are: Why You Need an Open Cloud Platform to Build a SaaS, Monday 11:40-12:30 On this large panel, I’ll be commenting [...]
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Conway’s Game of Life in one line of APL This is a really good introduction to the mind-numbing complexity that is APL. It’s not just the terse, obscure syntax; the way you need to think in order to use it is complex too. Lingua::Romana::Perligata — Perl for the XXIimum Century The talk Damien gave on [...]
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As Glyn Moody discussed yesterday, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) annual report on “piracy” is out. I hate that usage – the word “piracy” refers to about the worst crime humanity is able to conceive, involving theft by intimidation, hostage-taking, rape and murder, and it is cynical marketing of the most disgusting kind for the [...]
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Overinstaller Awareness Day Excellent and insightful comments from SSRC on the BSA’s as-poor-as-you’d-expect 2010 report. I just hope that there are legislators taking note of this research. BSA 2010 Piracy Report: Big Numbers, Big Flaws Given we all know their reports are biased rubbish now that SSRC has published their report, why do they keep [...]
Some people seem to think Google’s ChromeBook is just a cheap laptop with Linux on it. But I think that’s short-sighted. This is yet another attempt at a network computer. Read about it on ComputerWorldUK.
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Rebooting Public Notices Public notices and inquiries should be moved from the newspapers and the bowels of the web online to where we are: networks like Facebook and Twitter. An important topic, but the solution proposed here needs thinking through some more to take into account locally-important minority channels. Regulatory capture – Wikipedia, the free [...]
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The Special 301 Report is an annual publication by the US Trade Representative (USTR), fulfilling US legal requirements to identify countries whose copyright, patent, trademark and trade secrets laws and practices are of concern to the USA. You may recall I’ve written unflatteringly about USTR before. The report’s content reflects the input of US trade [...]
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