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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 seeking sufficient rights to operate the service and do not seek any further rights. They actually responded rather quickly and deserve some congratulations.
• The rise, fall and reality of commercial open source
  I think I’d agree with Jay but phrase things differently. The benefits of open source are all the first derivatives of software freedom. As the market stabilises, we are seeing two effects.

  • The first is businesses valuing those first derivatives as a function of the freedoms that cause them.
  • The second is a shift in marketing to talk about those derived benefits, but usually somehow in the context of their cause.

  I believe we will actually see more, not less marketing of open source benefits; it’s just that it might not mention their origins so prominently. This, in fact, is the subject of my current conference keynote talk 🙂

Also:

• Did Colossal WWII Bombing Raids Alter Weather?
  If this is correct one might expect the weather around major hub airports to be measurably different from the weather beyond their impact radius.
• Aircraft punch holes in clouds, leave snow in their wake
  Actual snow being created seems quite surprising, although it seems more plausible in the light of the preceding article (and vice versa).

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