Posted on July 11, 2012 by Simon Phipps
A press release at the end of last week disclosed the ITU is worried about the epidemic of patent litigation and the abuse of RAND terms on patents by industry vendors. Of course, they think the answer is more discipline and better patents, but eventually they will work out that the software industry is no place for software patents, especially not in interoperability standards. Read more on ComputerWorldUK.
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Posted on July 9, 2012 by Simon Phipps
I interviewed Jean-Manuel Croset, CEO of Mandriva S.A. about his plans for the future of the company and its products, together with Charles-H. Schulz, Mandriva’s director of community.
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Posted on July 6, 2012 by Simon Phipps
A new project that forks the GPL shows that Github isn’t just for software developers. See my column in InfoWorld this week for more.
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Posted on July 4, 2012 by Simon Phipps
ACTA was defeated today in the European Parliament, but one British Liberal-Democrat MEP voted for it. Understanding why helps us to understand how the political system needs fixing for the internet age. Please read my long article in ComputerWorldUK to see why.
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Posted on July 3, 2012 by Simon Phipps
Just posted on ComputerWorldUK – why you need to call or write to your MEP now, ahead of Wednesday’s vote on ACTA, and how to do it.
By the way, is anyone else concerned that it takes an international call to contact your political representatives for Europe? It ought to be a UK call, surely?
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Posted on June 30, 2012 by Simon Phipps
In preparing for the interview with the Java-based Drools Planner on FLOSS Weekly, my attention was grabbed by the claim it can solve NP-complete problems. You’ll need to watch the show to see how that worked out!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL-URSfYduA]
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Posted on June 29, 2012 by Simon Phipps
Not every project hits the headlines. As I’ve been co-hosting FLOSS Weekly over the last few months, I’ve noticed a surprising number of projects showing up that handle cloud computing in useful ways and are staff by Red Hat employees. I take a short stroll through some of those less known projects in this week’s InfoWorld column.
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Posted on June 21, 2012 by Simon Phipps
The draft Communications Data Bill is of great concern, not primarily because it lacks controls over who can access private data – these will be added – but because it creates a privacy-destroying surveillance resource which is certain to be abused in the future – both by government agencies and by illegal intruders. Read more in my article about it on ComputerWorldUK.
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Posted on June 19, 2012 by Simon Phipps
I’ve news.
- My talk – about why OSI is more relevant than ever – has been accepted for OSCON in Portland in July.
- Even better, OSI has been allocated one of the non-profit stands in the exhibit area, which will be used for the new Membership schemes we’ve been working on (BIG news coming soon!).
- Even better than that, O’Reilly tell me that if you quote the code
WEBMINK on the enrolment form, you’ll get a 20% discount on any OSCON attendee package!
- And best of all, for every five people who use the code to sign up, I will get one free pass to donate to a deserving community member.
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Posted on June 18, 2012 by Simon Phipps
If you’d like me to speak at your corporate event, user group or conference in the USA, you’ll be interested to know that I expect to be in the USA in mid-July and in November 2012. Please visit my Events page to find out more.
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