There’s a big market for digital books, but I think they’re being sold badly. If eBooks were sold as library loans, maybe I’d like them more – I explain more in my article today on ComputerWorldUK.
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My postings from here and ComputerWorldUK are often reposted at opensource.com by the folk at Red Hat who run the site. They are once again running a “People’s Choice” ballot for all there usual authors, and I’d be rather pleased to get a good score so do please go other and vote for me! Thanks!
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I found I still had a blog on java.net, so I’ve posted a quick note about FOSDEM there!
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I am no longer associated in any way with ForgeRock AS. With my renewed independence, I’ve a new startup activity I’m exploring, and I’m open for consulting, speaking and writing engagements during those explorations. Do please get in touch if you have any need of open source policy, process and community consulting.
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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.
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I’ve posted an overview of FOSDEM, the huge open source developer conference coming up soon in Brussels, on ComputerWorldUK today.
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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]
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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UK’s Minister of Agriculture thinks that the law against hunting foxes is impossible to enforce and should therefore be repealed.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…
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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.
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Despite a panic caused by a misleading headline, not only is Java not being removed from Ubuntu, but the Java reference implementation is actually a package in the main repository. My article today on ComputerWorldUK has the details.
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