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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 2010-12-02
Who's driving this thing? Well worth reading this explanation, and especially the Oracle VP's response. It's hard to think of a better case study for why communities...
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links for 2010-12-01
Community Bylaws – The Document Foundation LibreOffice hosts The Document Foundation have put together a set of bylaws for their new open-by-rule community and...
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? Crowdsource is not open source
I’ve heard a few conversations in the last week treating open source interchangeably with crowdsourcing. Despite sounding the same they are very different, and...
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? Hidden Motives
Intellectual Property Appears to Figure Prominently In Wikileaks Cablegate Michael Geist shrewdly observes that, far from being the exclusive domain of military...
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? For Your Safety
Australian Government adds Wikileaks to banned website list With WikiLeaks back in the news, this story from 2009 is more relevant than ever. Having rendered WikiLeaks...
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links for 2010-11-27
Recommended reading: Control and Community by The 451 Group Lengthy and favourable review of the 451 report on "Control and Community" (which they have very kindly...
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links for 2010-11-26
Leaving MariaDB/Monty Program Henrik has been a key persuader in the emergence of MariaDB, Monty Program AB and the Open Database Alliance from the consequences...
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links for 2010-11-25
Hudson java.net migration status update After an unpleasant wake-up call (caused, I am assured, by an administrative error) where their whole community resource...
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The case for
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” In translating my article...
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Open Source Monetisation Essay
My essay asserting that open source projects aren’t about giving stuff away for free is now available from the Essays section.
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links for 2010-11-24
Before the Junk Jokes: Airport Security Cartoons in The New Yorker Great selection that just goes to show there's nothing new under the sun. (tags: Humour Travel...
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links for 2010-11-23
Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality Important article from Tim Berners-Lee that needs to be brought to the attention of legislators...
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links for 2010-11-22
WebID 1.0 Interesting proposal for a lightweight mechanism for authenticated personal identity on the internet using existing web mechanisms. (tags: WebID Identity...
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links for 2010-11-21
Government suppliers may be ordered to open up data I'll believe it when I see it. The whole point of outsourcing in government contexts (and not just IT – think...
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Private Agreements Harm Communities
I pointed yesterday to an interesting comment about contributor agreements attached to a report about Michael Meeks speech a LPC. Another comment to the same article...
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? Essays Now Creative Commons
I had a request on Identica to make one of my essays available under a Creative Commons licence so it could be translated. I thought that was such a good idea I’ve...
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Contributor Agreements Say You
The conversation around LWN’s coverage of Michael Meeks’ talk at the Linux Plumbers Conference (sadly paywalled until now but available today and worth reading...
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links for 2010-11-18
Should Companies That Use Open Source Software Pay a Tithe? They should certainly budget to obtain service and ensure they pay the companies and people that make...
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