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Software Freedom Day It’s just two weeks away, get ready to join in! open80211s Meshed WiFi in every Linux device? Yes please! Eagles singer Don Henley: EFF, Google “aid and abet” criminals Listening to the “special interests” who worry about freedom of speech and breaking the Internet? Well, that makes you just as much a [...]
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Nym Wars I’m not sure what offends me most about Google’s idiotic approach here; the patronising parochialism that says they are the arbiters of what a “real” name is and how it’s constructed, the heavy-handed use of Terms of Service to bully individuals, the disregard for the established privacy strategies of so many people or [...]
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Chatting with Jill earlier, I ended up watching this TED talk by composer Eric Whitacre: Which led me to his Virtual Choir project, which I found exceptionally beautiful and moving: and to this year’s Virtual Choir 2.0, which drew together an astounding pool of global talent: I’m moved by both works, by the beauty of [...]
Just in case you’re not aware, the UK* has its end-of-the-summer public holiday tomorrow so none of your UK contacts will be at work (unless they’re hiding out in the office to avoid something…) See you Tuesday! *Except Scotland, who do things differently
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Following on from my Road To (Software) Freedom posting, I’ve written today about why I think the need for contributor agreements is a matter of choice and not necessity for a software business today. It’s over on ComputerWorldUK.
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Court Ruling Opens The Door To Rejecting Many Software Patents As Being Mere ‘Mental Processes’ The incremental adjustment of software patent law in the USA continues. As the global corporate conflict intensifies, we’ll see more and more of these cases reaching the courts. Yes, It’s Time To Abandon The United States This controversial piece makes [...]
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Beware: Europe’s ‘unitary patent’ could mean unlimited software patents Stallman is right to call the alarm on unitary patents. We need to resume the defence of the barricades against the pro-patent lobby. It’s worth noting, however, that the reason the pro-patent lobby pulled the plug last time (as Stallman says) was not because of the [...]
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At the Community Leadership Summit in Portland back in July, I moderated a session called “The Death Star User Group”, aimed at community managers working for large corporations in the various stages of their journey towards software freedom. Community managers in that situation often have to deal with negative perceptions of their employer. I think [...]
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Mark Shuttleworth on patents, tablets and the future of Ubuntu Interesting interview with Mark, who I consider one of the key thinkers of the software freedom movement. I think too many people criticise him too much while failing to understand the larger picture of his philosophy. When we look back in the future, Mark will [...]
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Just a few hours after I posted my CWUK article, HP showed how much they agreed with my analysis by cancelling the TouchPad and putting WebOS on ice. Will they now follow the rest of my advice and open the platform up? I’ve updated the CWUK article to reflect the change.
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