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This is an excellent motion, placing restraint on the ability of the European Commission to conduct opaque negotiations that will effectively bind the European parliament before they have been exposed and reviewed. Looking forward to reading the highlights of the debate. If you have a fast-track to your MEP, this is worth mentioning to them.
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Lovely narrative around various patent activities from Jonathan Schwartz. Love the irony of using Google to link to Sun's search patent…
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Jay with an explanation of why the whole Drizzle team (working on the refactoring of MySQL to suit cloud computing) has moved to Rackspace (a cloud computing supplier). Makes perfect sense to me.
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What could /possibly/ go wrong? Can anyone remember cane toads in Australia? Usually it's only the software industry that releases dangerous bugs.
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Here in Canada we have the indomitable Michael Geist, who pitches against ACTA and its really dodgy secrecy. That the EU Parliament is considering making the details public is important, as the hope–rational?–is that the hidden provisions would blanch under public scrutiny. And why the secrecy?
What is ACTA? See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement
The “Criticism” section is particularly interesting.
Geist is one of the most useful information sources on ACTA, not just in Canada. He’s on my blogroll…