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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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? Rehost And Carry On
I spent the last two days in Brussels with many of the key participants
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New ventures: OpenDJ,
Friday was a busy day full of news for me. After an exhausting day full of conference interventions on Thursday at Open World Forum (a total of five), Friday was...
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Libert
In my “state of the FOSS world” comments during the opening plenary of Open World Forum in Paris recently, I observed how important it is to remember our founding...
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? Unplanned Consequences
The “legal blackmail” business: inside a P2P settlement factory Very interesting article. The practice of “legal blackmail” extends further than this, of course...
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? Transitions
LibreOffice – A fresh page for OpenOffice This is a good and balanced article that is worth reading. At Sun I tried several times to get a Foundation started for...
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? Travel Security
I have been travelling this week on Europe’s low-cost airlines, and have realised that there is only one way to make air travel secure, and that is to take security...
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Why Open Source Is Free
My classic essay on Payment At The Point Of Value has finally made it on to the Essays page on this site. Now that community-centric open source is once again returning...
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links for 2010-09-27
Meet the Defenders of Open-Source Software I can't decide whether I am pleased there are people doing this or concerned that their actions become the focus of public...
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links for 2010-09-23
BSA's Piracy Numbers: Less than They Seem Glyn's research here is very useful. The BSA use of statistics is very regrettable, as is their use of inuendo and framing...
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? Copyright Aggregation Essay
My essay on copyright aggregation in open source projects has finally moved to the Essays section of the web site; future updates and edits will happen there.
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links for 2010-09-14
Twitter kills the password anti-pattern, but at what cost? Jon Udell argues that the switch to OAuth comes at the cost of a loss of flexibility and the potential...
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links for 2010-09-14
Commons Law – ComputerworldUK.com Great to see UK open source law expert Andrew Katz is now blogging on the (steadily expanding) open source blog at ComputerWorldUK...
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? Wise Handling
Twitter kills the password anti-pattern, but at what cost? Jon Udell argues that the switch to OAuth comes at the cost of a loss of flexibility and the potential...
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? Community Types Essay
My essay on Community Types is now available in the Essays section of the site. It defines what I mean by terms like “co-developer” and “deployer-developer” when...
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links for 2010-09-11
Licensing Change for Solaris 10 and Solaris Cluster It's still only an evaluation license, but at least they have got rid of the limited period. (tags: Solaris...
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links for 2010-09-10
A Peek Behind the Curtain of the Texas Antitrust Complaints against Google Fascinating and detailed analysis of the anti-trust complaints against Google. The conspiracy...
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? Will Run And Run
FSF responds to Oracle v. Google and the threat of software patents “Google could have avoided all this by building Android on top of IcedTea, a GPL-covered Java...
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? Transparency: Wrong and Right
The fishy mandate of ACTA If you thought there was something fishy about the European Commission engaging in secret negotiations at ACTA behind the backs of the...
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