SOPA and PIPA, the poorly-conceived draft legislation currently being considered in the USA, sparked a worldwide protest yesterday. I think they would also be bad for open source, and I explain why over on ComputerWorldUK.
Filed under: ComputerWorldUK | 1 Comment »
I was pleased to be able to send OSI’s sign-on to the civil society letter protesting the bad laws being considered by the US legislature at present. You can read more about it on my OSI blog.
Filed under: OSI | Tagged: OSI | 2 Comments »
I’ve posted an overview of FOSDEM, the huge open source developer conference coming up soon in Brussels, on ComputerWorldUK today.
Filed under: ComputerWorldUK | Comments Off
Use the force of Parody: except in the UK, originally uploaded by Open Rights Group. Parody is a powerful weapon for the campaigner. Turning the words of a target of criticism against themselves is a time-honoured way of criticising, and done well (as Greenpeace did in their parody of Volkswagen last year) it’s very effective. [...]
Filed under: Links | Comments Off
I’m pleased to say I’ll be delivering a short keynote at FOSDEM on February 4th at noon, explaining the new governance plans for the Open Source Initiative and announcing news of progress on the first steps of implementing them. Many thanks to the Programme Committee for their flexibility in arranging this.
Filed under: OSI | Comments Off
Mozilla released a new version of the Mozilla Public License this week. I think it’s a very positive development for open source globally – read why over on ComputerWorldUK. [Updated: French translation available]
Filed under: ComputerWorldUK | Comments Off
I know from the statistics that many of the people who read this are in the USA. Apologies to everyone else, but I’d like to ask all my US readers to take a look at the minimalist petition on the White House e-petitions site asking the President to veto SOPA and PIPA when their future [...]
Filed under: Issues | Tagged: DMCA, PIPA, SOPA | Comments Off
The UK’s Minister of Agriculture thinks that the law against hunting foxes is impossible to enforce and should therefore be repealed. I wonder how he and his government colleagues feel about impossible-to-enforce laws against sharing copyrighted materials? For more, see my article in ComputerWorldUK…
Filed under: ComputerWorldUK | Comments Off
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a short 2011 annual statistics report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: In 2011, there were 287 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 618 posts. Click here to see the complete report.
Filed under: Webmink | Comments Off
|
All views expressed on this blog are those of Simon Phipps and do not necessarily reflect the views of any other entity, including current and former employers. See my full disclosure of interests.
© 2010-12, Simon Phipps. All rights reserved, all wrongs righted. Unless otherwise credited all photographs, videos and other media are included in this statement. Some photographs are available for licensing via iStockPhoto. To contact the author, please use the e-mail form.
