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? The Threat Of Parallel Filing
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? The Threat Of Parallel Filing

When we consider software patents, it’s easy to believe they are something outside the open source communities. Mentally, many of us model them as a weapon belonging...

links for 2011-03-17
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links for 2011-03-17

White House wants new copyright law crackdown | Privacy Inc. – CNET News This repeated lack of balance and failure to consider the overall cultural and technical...

? OSI Governance Landmark
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? OSI Governance Landmark

You’ll recall about this time last year I was honoured to join the OSI Board and expressed hopes OSI could move towards representative governance. Well, I spent...

links for 2011-03-16
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links for 2011-03-16

GNU Free Call Announced This looks like an excellent initiative to create a decentralised voice-over-Internet service. Timely and necessary. (tags: Telephony FOSS...

links for 2011-03-15
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links for 2011-03-15

Open Source Software Hits a Strategic Tipping Point – Laurie Wurster – The Conversation – Harvard Business Review It is confirmed; open source has hit the top of...

? Subscriptions Article Available
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? Subscriptions Article Available

My article discussing why open source subscriptions should not be procured with the same assumptions and procedures as proprietary software is now available in...

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links for 2011-03-12
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links for 2011-03-12

Sun.com Will Disappear After June 1 Looks like we have even more link corrosion coming up. Would it really be so hard just to freeze all the content and leave it...

links for 2011-03-11
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links for 2011-03-11

Press Release: OpenLogic Scan Shows Open Source License Violations for iPhone and Android While OpenLogic understandably has an interest in promoting their services...

? Is Apache Open-By-Rule?
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? Is Apache Open-By-Rule?

The Apache Software Foundation is probably the most respected open source code community. Host to nearly 100 massively important projects like httpd, Subversion...

? Parallel Filing
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? Parallel Filing

In the future, where will most of the patents that patent trolls use come from? Find out in my article today on ComputerWorldUK.

links for 2011-03-09
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links for 2011-03-09

'No sysadmin' is the key to Freedom Box "The Freedom Box project will succeed or fail on whether it works "without sysadmin". If only trained sysadmins can figure...

? FSF Leadership Change
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? FSF Leadership Change

I got a call on Friday evening from Peter Brown, the Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). It’s been my great pleasure to know and work with...

links for 2011-03-07
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links for 2011-03-07

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? Crowdsourced is not Open Source
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? Crowdsourced is not Open Source

I’ve heard quite a few conversations that treat open source interchangeably with crowdsourcing. Despite sounding the same they are very different, most importantly...

? The Fire Falls
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? The Fire Falls

My favourite photographer is the late Galen Rowell, whose books (especially The Inner Game of Outdoor Photography, sadly out of print for UK readers) were my inspiration...

? Unexpected Goodness
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? Unexpected Goodness

Microsoft Says Please, Please Stop Using Internet Explorer 6 Friends don

? New OpenAM and OpenDJ Releases
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? New OpenAM and OpenDJ Releases

Today has been a big landmark for many of the developers at ForgeRock and in the communities in which they participate. Both the OpenAM (identity authentication...

? Owning The Problem?
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? Owning The Problem?

Android Gingerbread update broke Google Voice on the Nexus One So this is Google’s update to Google’s operating system badly breaking Google’s app for interacting...

? Open Source Procurement: Subscriptions
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? Open Source Procurement: Subscriptions

When you procure proprietary software, you buy a right-to-use license and then a support agreement. But when you buy open source, you already have the right-to-use...
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