I was interested last week to discover that, unknown to me, the link shortening service bit.ly was displaying a warning message when anyone clicked on one link I had shortened with them. The link was to a controversial but entirely valid political commentary and there had been no indication that this would happen when I [...]
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NZOSS Wins Patent Opposition So Microsoft doesn’t have a patent on XML in document processing in New Zealand. Excellent result for the New Zealand Open Source Society here – congratulations to everyone who has been involved over the long haul involved in the case. HP sues Oracle as tech big shots’ animosity grows While this [...]
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I got an e-mail from the Financial Times yesterday, announcing their new “FT App”. That sounded unusual; after all, the FT has had an iPad/iPhone app for some time. I took a look, and found the whole world of mobile publishing waiting for me in microcosm. It’s not open source, but I see the same [...]
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First TDF Advisory Board members demonstrate wide corporate support for LibreOffice The Document Foundation continues its steady progress with news of a Gnome-style Advisory Board – which also presumably means the companies involved are making donations to strengthen TDF’s already considerable cash base. The composition of the Board is very interesting, with Red Hat’s CTO [...]
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As expected, the Apache Software Foundation took the first steps to admitting the OpenOffice.org project to the Apache community, following Oracle’s IBM-designed proposal. It now faces a time of maturing and proving in Apache’s Incubator. I’ve avoided publishing articles here during the Apache discussion as I have both a history and strong views. But with [...]
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It was with huge sadness that we discovered last month that our cat Toby had died suddenly in a neighbour’s garden. He was young and in perfect condition. He had breakfast, went out to prowl in the sunshine and the next thing we knew was many hours later when we received a call to say [...]
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Ever wondered why barbecues aren’t the staple of summer life for the British that they are for Californians? It’s because any time you try to plan one (like we have today, with a decent number of guests), the weather does this:
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Vote on accepting OpenOffice.org for incubation at Apache After the heaviest traffic in recent memory on the Apache Incubator list, with many impassioned messages on both sides of the argument (along with some heavy-handed slapdowns here and there by proposers of the action), the vote is now open for 72 hours and looks like it [...]
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Music and film industries split over pirates My own conversations of late suggest that wiser minds (or rather, minds that can make the reptile see the difference between food and fear) are starting to prevail in the various publishing industries, and the tone is softening as business models that leverage the realities of the 21st [...]
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Investors Speaking Up About Patents Harming Innovation One of the things I keep hearing some advisors saying is that VCs won’t invest in your startup (or at least are much less likely to) if you don’t have any patents, becuase patents protect your innovation. In turn, this meme is used by patent capitalists (like disaster [...]
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