The first release of the contributor agreements created by Project Harmony were published last Monday. I participated in the Project, but I don’t endorse it. Find out why over on ComputerWorldUK.
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Garden Monster, originally uploaded by webmink. Spotted this vapourer moth caterpillar eating the leaves on one of my blueberry bushes. Glad it’s only 3cm long
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Project Harmony Considered Harmful Bradley Kuhn of the Software Conservancy is clearly opposed both to Project Harmony’s work products and sponsors. In short, Project Harmony is a design-flawed solution looking for a problem. Open Minded: Peace and Harmony between FOSS contributors and lawyers Stephen Walli of the Outercurve Foundation seems happy with the results. The [...]
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The Dropbox Blog – Changes to our policies (updated) Dropbox got lots of bad publicity when they first changed their terms of service and included a broad “all your work belongs to us” clause in it. But I’ve not seen any further coverage since they have clarified the ToS to say that they are only [...]
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Shouldn’t Free Mean The Same Thing Whether Followed By ‘Culture’ Or ‘Software’? An excellent point being made here; if it is morally wrong to prevent someone expressing new software based on a previous work, why is it morally OK to prevent someone expressing a new song, picture, book or other creative work based on a [...]
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If you are a UK resident located in the UK (yes, Amazon really has bolted its service down that tightly here), there are free tracks by two of my absolute favourite artists available at the moment. I ordered the new album Perfect Darkness [US] by Fink as soon as I saw it was being released [...]
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I’m getting tired of all the news reports that are incorrectly accusing the News of the World of “phone hacking”. For goodness sake, haven’t we already covered this? It’s both inaccurate and unhelpful. Even the BBC are doing it and they ought to know better. It is inaccurate because the activity does not involve access [...]
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USTR New Exclusive Right for Copyright Holders: Importation Provision in the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) USTR continues its covert mission to extend copyright and its control ever wider without any reference to the protection of culture or citizens. Giving corporations more unassailable rights is so obviously a problem that it’s no wonder they want [...]
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Does your company use open source software? Do they contribute to it in any way? If not, perhaps you should follow the Brazilian government’s lead. Read about it on ComputerWorldUK.
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UK looks to US on piracy blocking Ed Vaizey’s views at outrageously uninformed if this report is correct. He seems to think that flawless blocking is possible and that its benefits outweigh its disadvantages. He also seems to be speaking from notes written by the media and proprietary software industries. Exceptionally disappointing lack of insight. [...]
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