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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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? Reptiles
Several years ago, we had the chance to visit a crocodile farm in Queensland, Australia. There were several highlights, not least the chance for the children to...
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links for 2009-10-29
Many open-sourcers back an Oracle takeover of MySQL Indeed, my experience of late is that there are very few voices without a vested interest who...
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links for 2009-10-28
US Department of Defence Posts New Guidance on Open Source Software This has been a long time cooking, but finally allows the US Defence Department...
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links for 2009-10-27
Introducing Amazon RDS - The Amazon Relational Database Service That's MySQL in the cloud as a web service. This is exactly the...
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links for 2009-10-26
Weak Points of Sun Deal Come Out in Europe I do hope the folks filing narrowly-focussed letters at the EU are paying attentionSun...
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links for 2009-10-25
ZFS for MacOS X The power of open source is that, when one door closes, anyone can open another one. (tags: OpenSource...
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We Have An Ombudsman
Just a quick reminder to anyone who believes Sun has done something bad in the community; we do have a community ombudsman service. Send e-mail to ombudsman@sun...
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links for 2009-10-22
Groklaw - Reasons I Believe the Community Should Support the Oracle-Sun Deal Another unexpected position that is wellworth reading and which I'm...
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? A Remarkable Reversal
It was a surprise to see Richard Stallman's signature on a letter to the European Commission calling on them to block the acquisition of MySQL by Oracle with its...
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links for 2009-10-20
Letter to the EC opposing Oracle's acquisition of MySQL Fascinating to see Stallman admit that the GPL does not guarantee software...
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links for 2009-10-18
Where The Crooks Are What Tim said. I still believe that blogging creates no risk for a company that does not already exist becuase...
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? Relaxed Saturday Links
The Official Simon's Cat Website My cat has her own web site. (tags: Cat Humour Comic Cartoon cats animation)Details...
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links for 2009-10-16
ODF plugfest in Orvieto Another fine opportunity to get ODF interoperating as well as possible between different implementations...
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links for 2009-10-15
Firm seeks Glaswegian interpreter I can understand the challenges, but I can usually cope with Glaswegian. Now, Ulster Irish is another matter....
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links for 2009-10-14
The Carter-Ruck school of viral marketing The work done by legal firm Carter-Ruck on behalf of their client Trafigura will (hopefully)...
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? Harmonising Principle and Pragmatism
Can open source stop navel gazing and get real? While Matt's point has a certain populist charm, I don't agree with him that software...
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links for 2009-10-12
What Caused the Sidekick Fail? "Microsoft was upgrading their SAN (Storage Area Network aka the thing that stores all your data)...
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links for 2009-10-11
Your Company Could Win $10 Million! Big, bold, brash, brazen, this is the red future awaiting Sun. (tags: Oracle...
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? Names Matter
Open Core: The worst of both worlds "Open core tries to find a middle ground between proprietary software and free software, but...
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