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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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I was pleased to be able to attend this year’s OSCON, O’Reilly Media’s open source convention held once again in Portland, Oregon in mid-July. There have been numerous...
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links for 2010-08-01
WikiLeaks disclosures are a 'tragedy' Yes, I get the fact the documents smear the war and that the US government spins the facts. I also get that there's a damage...
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? Competitive Behaviour
Apple Ships More Mobile Phones Than Motorola For The Second Quarter In A Row More a statement of Motorola’s decline that Apple’s advance, but still a significant...
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links for 2010-07-29
Dell's fraud settlement explodes PC market myths "Intel's rebates amounted to 38 per cent of Dell's operating profit in the fiscal year 2006, and rose to 76 per...
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? Jailbreaking Decision Is Temporary Relief
While the decision by the US Library of Congress to create exceptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for jailbreaking iPhones is very welcome, the reaction...
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links for 2010-07-27
EFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers Congratulations to the EFF on this victory for digital liberty. We mustn't...
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links for 2010-07-26
How Will You Measure Your Life? Worthwhile reading for a Monday from Clayton Christensen. (tags: Business Management Philosophy Zeitgeist) Good-bye, Sun Bryan Cantrill...
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links for 2010-07-23
WS-I Transitions To OASIS In the debate about open standards at the Cloud Summit on Tuesday, one speaker argued powerfully that standards follow innovation rather...
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links for 2010-07-22
ForgeRock Releases OpenAM 9.5 Software Quite a milestone – this is our first independent release, sourced entirely from community members. It's good stuff too –...
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? First Post!
Today is a significant milestone for the new venture I’m helping, ForgeRock. We’ve announced availability of our first full independent release of OpenAM, the open...
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links for 2010-07-21
Phase relationships in the standardization process James Gosling wrote in 1990: "standards are increasingly being viewed as competitive weapons rather than as technological...
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links for 2010-07-20
Rotten to the (Open) Core? Dave Neary's thorough analysis of the problem with open core is right on the nail. (tags: OpenCore OpenSource) Opening The Rackspace...
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links for 2010-07-19
NASA and Rackspace open source cloud fluffer Very significant initiative. The fact it's under the Apache licence makes it highly reusable, and the diversity of...
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? Did Open Core Trigger OpenStack?
At the end of the Community Leadership Summit here in Portland people arriving for OSCON started to show up. They included one of the guys behind Rackspace’s announcement...
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links for 2010-07-18
Oracle's Support for Open Source and Open Standards Looks like this is the canonical list of which open source projects matter to Oracle. Notable for what's missing...
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? On the term
I’ve been having a number of conversations in e-mail on the subject of open core business models. The problem that keeps coming up is that there are a range of...
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? OpenSolaris Governance
You may have seen some of the news reporting of the OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) meeting that was held last Monday (I am an elected member of the Board). At...
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