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Concise and sensible article is pretty damning of Mandelson over DeBill, and rightly so: “Legislators have a responsibility to strike a balance between the competing needs of right-holders and of society. But when it comes to copyright legislation, they ignore the public interest.”
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JK Rowling analyses – in The Times, no less – the Tories £150 tax break for married couples and finds it wanting: “David Cameron tells us that the Conservatives have changed, that they are no longer the “nasty party”, that he wants the UK to be “one of the most family-friendly nations in Europe”, but I, for one, am not buying it. He has repackaged a policy that made desperate lives worse when his party was last in power, and is trying to sell it as something new.”
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Good to see this fact, which many of us have known for ages, finally showing up officially. Of course, the ACTA folks (like the DeBill people) will carry on acting as if the opposite is true and acting to “protect the creative industry”. But that’s because they are representative only of industry stakeholders and not of the commons and the really important stakeholder that benefits from it – us.
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I missed this when it came out last year – thanks for the link, Michael. It provides a good overview of btrfs as well as sketching the differences between it and ZFS.
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