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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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? Learning Opportunities
On WebM again: freedom, quality, patents The arguments made against WebM video by H.264 advocates turn out to be at best wildly exaggerated and at worst baseless...
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? The Open-By-Rule Governance Benchmark
With Oracle’s OpenJDK Project about to announce new community governance, many people have asked what I look for in good open source project and community governance...
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? Rebooting Procurement
European Commission consults on the modernisation of the European Public Procurement Market The European Commission’s consultation is in progress until April. It...
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? Sirius News
When we started last year, it was thrilling to see how many companies responded when we asked who would be interested in reselling ForgeRock subscriptions, consulting...
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? New Moves
Jenkins! By a massive margin (214 to 14) the Hudson community has decided to rename itself Jenkins and rehost on independent resources. I just hope Oracle decides...
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? New OpenDJ Architect
Last week I broke the news that ForgeRock (where I work) had gained an architect for OpenIDM. Today is the last day of ForgeRock’s first year, and I’m pleased to...
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Campus Party
I just got home from a week in Brazil, where I gave talks for IBM and for a large ForgeRock customer and also at the remarkable Campus Party. This is the second...
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links for 2011-01-27
Bookdarts bookmarks – 50 count tin – bronze: Amazon.co.uk: Office Products I have loved these paper-thin metal page markers ever since I first discovered them in...
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? Indemnity Article Available/Dispon
My article on the problem of indemnity requirements for open source procurement is now available in the Essays section, in English and Portuguese. O artigo “Aquisi...
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? Fixing The Chilling Effect of Trademarks
Brazil’s new License for Trademarks (Licen
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? Fixing The JCP
Oracle Nominates Bruno Souza of SouJava to JCP EC A very astute move by Oracle here. They are proposing that the seat on the Java Community Process Executive Committee...
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Another RockStar at ForgeRock
You’ll recall that ForgeRock (where I work) launched the OpenIDM project back in October. One of the key control points in enterprise software is the provisioning...
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links for 2011-01-23
Oops: No copied Java code or weapons of mass destruction found in Android | ZDNet Ed Burnette takes a look at the allegation from a lobbyist that Google is guilty...
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Procurement and Indemnity
Legacy procurement rules that insist on indemnity from open source subscription suppliers are an unnecessary barrier to open source adoption. Read about this on...
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? OSI and FSF Collaborate In DoJ Referral
Before Christmas I reported that the Open Source Initiative (OSI) had written to the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) asking them to investigate the acquisition...
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links for 2011-01-19
People's Choice Award 2010 – opensource.com The OpenSource.Com website that Red Hat run is having a ballot to select the top contributor for 2010 – vote now! (tags...
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links for 2011-01-18
On the map Interesting slide show illustrating the power of OpenStreetMap to overcome political bias that prevents the real world being documented. (tags: OpenStreetMap...
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