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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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MyGOSSCon Slides
I gave a presentation yesterday in Malaysia on the forces driving change in open source; here are the slides.
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Open Rights Group Maturing
In the space of a few weeks, the Open Rights Group (where I’m a volunteer director) has gone through a growth spurt, winning an award for campaigning work, launching...
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Cause and Effect
Why do people take actions that actually make things worse as they attempt to solve complex problems? I was interviewed Monday for an upcoming documentary called...
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Open, Free and Commercial
"Open" is never used honestly to mean "non-commercial". "Open" means no permission required; only salesmen pretend otherwise.— Simon Phipps (@webmink) November...
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Finessing Stallman’s Pragmatism
Not a title that you might expect to see, but Richard Stallman has indeed posted a pragmatic proposal for dealing with software patents – to limit enforceability...
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Driving Open Source
Here’s my interview with this month’s Oracle Java Magazine about the forces driving open source and the need for open source skills.
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Downloads Prove There Are Downloaders
And nothing more. My experience at Sun showed me that, when you use downloads as a metric for project success, you’re missing the point and perhaps trying to distract...
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Open Means No Patents
I’m delighted with the definitions the UK Government has chosen for “open source” and “open standards” in their new Open Standards Principles. They are using OSI...
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Air New Zealand Goes Hobbit
Their safety video is the first I’ve actually wanted to watch all the way to the end…
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Triangulation And Butter
Why should we care about protecting small items of personal data, such as our date of birth, parents’ names, post code and so on? Why does it matter when we’re...
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Living No Longer Easy
Summer Time has ended in Europe. That means no more fish jumpin’, daddy is definitely not rich and it would not be politic to comment on mamma. In addition, meeting...
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CDB: Not Dead Yet
This zombie bill no politician seems able to kill is a pandora's box that will lead to a public panopticon.
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Why I Left My Macbook For A Chromebook
Maybe it’s just a lustful fling, but for now, the only laptop in my life is my 3G Chromebook. Read about it on InfoWorld.
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FLOSS Weekly on Baserock
I was co-host on today’s FLOSS Weekly episode, about the Baserock continuous integration system for Linux (and also the amazing 8 CPU/32 core Baserock Slab server...
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Concentration of Power
Hearing that Amazon had remotely wiped someone’s Kindle, I decided to investigate and find out if it had actually happened. It hadn’t, but what had happened instead...
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About OSI
I recorded a short interview explaining OSI Membership while I was at Open World Forum. Thanks to openworldforum.tv for the opportunity to tell people how to join...
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South Tyrol Soon
Coming up on 16th November: SFSCon in Bolzano, Italy. While we wait for the details, here’s a reminder of what the place is like:
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