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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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links for 2010-08-24
OpenStack Community Update Excellent progress is being made in the OpenStack community, including implementation of support for VirtualBox, which I asked for in...
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? OpenSolaris Governing Board Resigns
I’m very sad to report that, as expected, it proved necessary for the OpenSolaris Governing Board to collectively resign today. The motion was as follows: Motion...
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links for 2010-08-23
Electronic Voting Researcher Arrested Over Anonymous Source "About four months ago, Ed Felten blogged about a research paper in which Hari Prasad, Rop Gonggrijp...
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Open Source Trade Associations Lack Sanctions
Software patents are broken and the only possible justification for having them is self-defence (which is itself a risky accumulation of armaments that can easily...
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? Free Music Weekend
Over 40 free tracks! There has to be a new season coming as far as the music industry is concerned, because there’s a tide of free sample tracks both on Amazon...
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links for 2010-08-20
Digital Bang: Sub Pop's Amazon Sampler A rare Amazon UK free MP3 sampler (people located outside the UK need not even try, Amazon UK uses an IP whitelist). This...
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? Helpless?
Lawsuit Raises Questions about Open Invention Network, Linux Foundation Tweets get as much coverage as interviews these days, it seems. Tweets lack nuance and usually...
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links for 2010-08-17
The Twitter Simon Phipps Daily Interesting meta-aggregator turns links posted by the people I follow on Twitter into a daily "newspaper". (tags: paper.li Twitter...
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links for 2010-08-16
Oracle/Google: the strategy behind Sun, Oracle and the OSS implications This whole Oracle-copies-SCO mess has many degrees of complexity – historical, legal, technical...
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links for 2010-08-15
Oracle v Google: Why? Excellent discussion by Stephen O'Grady together with pointers to other commentary that's worth considering. No conclusions, of course, since...
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? Crocodile
The news: Oracle sues Google over Android and mobile Java Hmm. Aren’t these both Linux Foundation members and OIN licensees? Fighting over open source technology...
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links for 2010-08-12
Why We Need To Abolish Software Patents "Patents make a lot of sense in many industries …. But in software these are just nuclear weapons in an arms race. They...
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The King Is Dead, Long Live The King
The move back to collaborative co-development of open source will characterise the next phase of the open source movement.
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links for 2010-08-11
Oracle Details Upcoming Solaris 11 Release "We're really getting our grip around building a mission critical operating system that includes technologies from openSolaris...
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links for 2010-08-10
The golden age of open source? Matthew Aslett describes what I called "the open source bubble" as open source 3.0 and agrees it's ending in favour of what he calls...
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? Free UK Tracks
Here are links to three of the free tracks I’ve found on Amazon UK over the last week (you have to be in the UK to download these). The best is probably the dark...
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links for 2010-08-09
Copyright assignment – Once bitten, twice shy Excellent and thorough article about copyright assignment. If you are involved in the current, Canonical-sponsored...
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? CWUK Blog Changes
Small administrative note: ComputerWorldUK switched over to a much more attractive design last night, and at the same time switched their blogging platform to Moveable...
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? Career Bets
Its Official Software Will Be Unpatentable In NZ “Despite what appears to be a big-budget lobbying effort by the pro-patent fraternity, Hon Simon Power announced...
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