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links for 2010-10-28
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links for 2010-10-28

Tantric TSA: The art of foreplay "I wondered what government official in what dark alley dreamed up this groping to protect the public?" At some point our elected...

ForgeRock: Announcing OpenIDM
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ForgeRock: Announcing OpenIDM

You’ll recall that we started ForgeRock near the start of 2010 to provide continuity for customers of Sun’s enterprise identity middleware products and from that...

DRM Is Toxic To Culture
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DRM Is Toxic To Culture

It’s possible that you think that unauthorised use of copyrighted music, films and books is such a serious problem that it’s worth giving away a little of your...

Compliance
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Compliance

My essay on open source license compliance for end users is now available in the essays section.

links for 2010-10-26
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links for 2010-10-26

LibreOffice Contributions stats It's early days, but it seems liberating the OpenOffice.org community from the contributor agreement and excessive vetting has helped...

? Reputation and Regulation
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? Reputation and Regulation

Building an Online Reputation, One Angry Customer at a Time Really excellent advice here on how to handle customer engagement. As one of the comments says this...

? More Change
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? More Change

Wind of Change Florian Effenburger steps down as OpenOffice.org marketing project lead. He has always been the model of leadership in that role, patient, tolerant...

links for 2010-10-23
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links for 2010-10-23

Mike Shapiro Leaves Oracle Another of the key Solaris guys quits. A key figure in the development the ZFS storage appliance as well as of DTrace in Solaris kernel...

links for 2010-10-22
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links for 2010-10-22

AWS Free Usage Tier I was actually surprised to find Amazon didn't have a sandpit for AWS, so this new offering really doesn't surprise me. They still have no easy...

links for 2010-10-21
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links for 2010-10-21

Every email and website to be stored "Every email, phone call and website visit is to be recorded and stored after the Coalition Government revived controversial...

License Compliance: Not An Open Source Problem
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License Compliance: Not An Open Source Problem

The New York Times featured the activities of the GPL enforcement community recently. While there’s a part of me that’s pleased there are people doing this, I’m...

? Gaming The System
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? Gaming The System

When a company asks for your copyright “When a company says which of these conditions it will accept, that will show you how far it plans to depart from the principles...

links for 2010-10-19
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links for 2010-10-19

Sender ID Finds Followers Ahead of Approval If anyone has forgotten why RAND and RAND-Z terms are a defect awaiting exploitation to undermine software freedoms,...

? Monday Links
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? Monday Links

Split JCP: a compromise proposal Stephen Colebourne articulates what I am sure has been on many people’s minds – that it’s time for an independent JCP, and that...

? Monopolies and patents
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? Monopolies and patents

EU to push patent-free eGovernment The European Interoperability Framework (EIF) is still in play, and despite attempts by companies like Microsoft to "own" interoperability...

links for 2010-10-16
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links for 2010-10-16

New Breed of Patent Claim Bedevils Product Makers A gold-rush for weekend vexatious litigants, and another example of why patent law needs reform (although not...

links for 2010-10-14
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links for 2010-10-14

FLOSS Weekly 139: Alfresco It was a long session, but the conversation flowed between me, John Newton and Luis Sala of Alfresco and FLOSS Weekly anchor Randal Schwartz...

links for 2010-10-11
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links for 2010-10-11

IBM joins the OpenJDK community and dumps Apache Harmony "IBM will work with Oracle and the Java community to make OpenJDK the primary high performance open source...

? Status.Net Finds Twitter
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? Status.Net Finds Twitter

ABC “Unofficially” Partners with Twitter-Alternative StatusNet The flexibility and open source code of Status.Net make it a natural vehicle for internal/private...

? Awe
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? Awe

Offrez moi votre silence by Thierry Dreyfus, photo by y.caradec. The huge public art event in Paris this weekend – Nuit Blanche – included some works on an absolutely...
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