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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 2010-10-28
Tantric TSA: The art of foreplay "I wondered what government official in what dark alley dreamed up this groping to protect the public?" At some point our elected...
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ForgeRock: Announcing OpenIDM
You’ll recall that we started ForgeRock near the start of 2010 to provide continuity for customers of Sun’s enterprise identity middleware products and from that...
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DRM Is Toxic To Culture
It’s possible that you think that unauthorised use of copyrighted music, films and books is such a serious problem that it’s worth giving away a little of your...
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Compliance
My essay on open source license compliance for end users is now available in the essays section.
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links for 2010-10-26
LibreOffice Contributions stats It's early days, but it seems liberating the OpenOffice.org community from the contributor agreement and excessive vetting has helped...
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? Reputation and Regulation
Building an Online Reputation, One Angry Customer at a Time Really excellent advice here on how to handle customer engagement. As one of the comments says this...
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? More Change
Wind of Change Florian Effenburger steps down as OpenOffice.org marketing project lead. He has always been the model of leadership in that role, patient, tolerant...
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links for 2010-10-23
Mike Shapiro Leaves Oracle Another of the key Solaris guys quits. A key figure in the development the ZFS storage appliance as well as of DTrace in Solaris kernel...
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links for 2010-10-22
AWS Free Usage Tier I was actually surprised to find Amazon didn't have a sandpit for AWS, so this new offering really doesn't surprise me. They still have no easy...
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links for 2010-10-21
Every email and website to be stored "Every email, phone call and website visit is to be recorded and stored after the Coalition Government revived controversial...
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License Compliance: Not An Open Source Problem
The New York Times featured the activities of the GPL enforcement community recently. While there’s a part of me that’s pleased there are people doing this, I’m...
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? Gaming The System
When a company asks for your copyright “When a company says which of these conditions it will accept, that will show you how far it plans to depart from the principles...
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links for 2010-10-19
Sender ID Finds Followers Ahead of Approval If anyone has forgotten why RAND and RAND-Z terms are a defect awaiting exploitation to undermine software freedoms,...
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? Monday Links
Split JCP: a compromise proposal Stephen Colebourne articulates what I am sure has been on many people’s minds – that it’s time for an independent JCP, and that...
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? Monopolies and patents
EU to push patent-free eGovernment The European Interoperability Framework (EIF) is still in play, and despite attempts by companies like Microsoft to "own" interoperability...
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links for 2010-10-16
New Breed of Patent Claim Bedevils Product Makers A gold-rush for weekend vexatious litigants, and another example of why patent law needs reform (although not...
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links for 2010-10-14
FLOSS Weekly 139: Alfresco It was a long session, but the conversation flowed between me, John Newton and Luis Sala of Alfresco and FLOSS Weekly anchor Randal Schwartz...
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links for 2010-10-11
IBM joins the OpenJDK community and dumps Apache Harmony "IBM will work with Oracle and the Java community to make OpenJDK the primary high performance open source...
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? Status.Net Finds Twitter
ABC “Unofficially” Partners with Twitter-Alternative StatusNet The flexibility and open source code of Status.Net make it a natural vehicle for internal/private...
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