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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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? The Threat Of Parallel Filing
When we consider software patents, it’s easy to believe they are something outside the open source communities. Mentally, many of us model them as a weapon belonging...
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links for 2011-03-17
White House wants new copyright law crackdown | Privacy Inc. – CNET News This repeated lack of balance and failure to consider the overall cultural and technical...
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? OSI Governance Landmark
You’ll recall about this time last year I was honoured to join the OSI Board and expressed hopes OSI could move towards representative governance. Well, I spent...
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links for 2011-03-16
GNU Free Call Announced This looks like an excellent initiative to create a decentralised voice-over-Internet service. Timely and necessary. (tags: Telephony FOSS...
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links for 2011-03-15
Open Source Software Hits a Strategic Tipping Point – Laurie Wurster – The Conversation – Harvard Business Review It is confirmed; open source has hit the top of...
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? Subscriptions Article Available
My article discussing why open source subscriptions should not be procured with the same assumptions and procedures as proprietary software is now available in...
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links for 2011-03-12
Sun.com Will Disappear After June 1 Looks like we have even more link corrosion coming up. Would it really be so hard just to freeze all the content and leave it...
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links for 2011-03-11
Press Release: OpenLogic Scan Shows Open Source License Violations for iPhone and Android While OpenLogic understandably has an interest in promoting their services...
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? Is Apache Open-By-Rule?
The Apache Software Foundation is probably the most respected open source code community. Host to nearly 100 massively important projects like httpd, Subversion...
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? Parallel Filing
In the future, where will most of the patents that patent trolls use come from? Find out in my article today on ComputerWorldUK.
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links for 2011-03-09
'No sysadmin' is the key to Freedom Box "The Freedom Box project will succeed or fail on whether it works "without sysadmin". If only trained sysadmins can figure...
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? FSF Leadership Change
I got a call on Friday evening from Peter Brown, the Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). It’s been my great pleasure to know and work with...
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? Crowdsourced is not Open Source
I’ve heard quite a few conversations that treat open source interchangeably with crowdsourcing. Despite sounding the same they are very different, most importantly...
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? The Fire Falls
My favourite photographer is the late Galen Rowell, whose books (especially The Inner Game of Outdoor Photography, sadly out of print for UK readers) were my inspiration...
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? Unexpected Goodness
Microsoft Says Please, Please Stop Using Internet Explorer 6 Friends don
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? New OpenAM and OpenDJ Releases
Today has been a big landmark for many of the developers at ForgeRock and in the communities in which they participate. Both the OpenAM (identity authentication...
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? Owning The Problem?
Android Gingerbread update broke Google Voice on the Nexus One So this is Google’s update to Google’s operating system badly breaking Google’s app for interacting...
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