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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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? Is Eclipse Open-By-Rule?
The Eclipse Foundation is home to a family of projects related to enterprise software development. Its Executive Director Mike Milinkovic has very kindly supplied...
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links for 2011-02-15
With A Little Help: The Early Returns Excellent and honest account from Cory of his experiment in self-publishing. From reading this it's clear that there is still...
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? Why You Need Document Freedom
Document Freedom Day is March 30th this year. Why should you join in? See my article on ComputerWorldUK!
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? ForgeRock Starts Year Two With A Bang
ForgeRock was started in February 2010 and is now one year old. In its first year: ForgeRock did business with 35 customers in 10 countries Global turnover exceeded...
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links for 2011-02-13
Document Freedom Day 2011 Don't for a second underestimate the importance of document formats – the way your files are stored by the program you use – in locking...
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links for 2011-02-12
Double Bug: Oracle Kept OpenJDK In The Dark Great explanation from Mark Wielaard of how the effectiveness of the OpenJDK community in dealing with the Double security...
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? Is LibreOffice Open-By-Rule?
Charles-H Schulz from The Document Foundation submitted the data for a benchmark evaluation of LibreOffice. I have read his evaluations and added scores, giving...
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? Procurement And Copyright Article Available
My article about how procurement policies need to address copyright ownership is now available from the Essays section.
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? Is Open Source Good For Security?
I’ve two stories about the discovery and resolution of bugs in important software packages – Solaris and Java – that suggest a properly-functioning open source...
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links for 2011-02-09
White House will propose new digital copyright laws The Obama administration wants Big Media to have even more repressive control on America's citizens. Looks like...
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links for 2011-02-08
mflow music Give this UK-based online music site a try (assuming you can – the usual music industry geographic restriction nonsense applies). It lets you listen...
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? More Ratings Please
Given the interest in my earlier article about a scorecard for open source and my own rough-and-ready benchmark proposal, I’d be interested in seeing how well the...
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Governance Benchmark Available
My article establishing an open-by-rule benchmark for checking the governance of open source communities is now available in the Essays section.
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? FOSDEM Java
The Free Java DevRoom at FOSDEM was packed with people all day yesterday. At the beginning, Mark Reinhold (from Sun and now Oracle, the chief Java engineer) hoped...
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links for 2011-02-05
Affirmative action in procurement for open standards and FLOSS This paper asserts what I have heard from many directions – that government procurement remains closed...
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? Getting Online Abroad
One of the best travel purchases I have made is an unlocked high-speed USB 3G modem. It allows me to get broadband-speed internet access for the duration of each...
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links for 2011-02-04
What to Do When You Receive a BSA Audit Letter The very best thing to do is write back and say "you are mistaken, we only use open source software and there is...
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? Rating OpenJDK Governance
I used to be a member of the Interim Governance Board for the OpenJDK project I helped Sun start to host an open source implementation of the Java platform under...
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Open Source Procurement and Copyright
Legacy procurement rules that try to demand custom copyright licenses and the assignment of new copyright to your company could be costing you dearly. They could...
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