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A photo of a Mari Lwyd, from the Welsh tradition CC-BY-SA by R. fiend My post on 5 years of GPLv3 got picked up by LWN.net, see a medium-sized comment thread. There and elsewhere some people thought I...
View ArticleFree as in Software Freedom Law Shows
In the latest Free as in Freedom podcast Karen Sandler and Bradley Kuhn play a recording of and discuss my FOSDEM law&policy presentation from back in February. The podcast covered all but one...
View ArticleRide- and car-sharing and computers
Underemployed vehicles and land at Fruitvale BART parking lot, the 5th of 11 stations between me and Fremont. Tuesday I attended Silicon Valley Automotive Open Source presentations on Car- and...
View ArticleOpus!
Opus is now an open source, royalty-free IETF standard. See Mozilla and Xiph announcements and congratulations to all involved. This is a pretty big deal. It seems that Opus is superior to all existing...
View ArticleQuestion Software Freedom Day‽
If software freedom is important, it must be attacked, lest it die from the unremitting bludgeoning of obscurity and triviality. While necessary, I don’t particularly mean trivial attacks on overblown...
View ArticleExit tweet loyalty
Someday I will read Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (1970) and comment on pertinence to things I write about here (cf my almost due for 8 year refutation notes on The Logic of Collective Action (1965)), but I...
View ArticleOpen Data nuance
I’m very mildly annoyed with some discussion of “open data”, in part where it is an amorphous thing for which expectations must be managed, value found and sustainable business models, perhaps...
View ArticleBillion dollar open source organizations
Brian Proffitt looks for the next $1 billion open source company. This year Red Hat recently surpassed US$1 billion annual revenues (and also $10 billion market capitalization). One can debate what...
View ArticleCODATA
Last week I attended CODATA 2012 in Taipei, the biannual conference of the Committee on Data for Science and Technology. I struggled a bit with deciding to go — I am not a “data scientist” nor a...
View ArticlePublic Domains Day
Points 1-4 of my year-ago post, Which counterfactual public domain day? hold up well, but number 5 could be improved: it concerns optimal copyright term, which is a rather narrow issue, and viewed from...
View ArticleOpen Knowledge Foundation
I used to privately poke fun at the Open Knowledge Foundation for what seemed like a never-ending stream of half-baked projects (and domains, websites, lists, etc). I was wrong. (I have also criticized...
View ArticleOA mandate, FLOSS contrast
The Obama administration: has directed Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded research freely available to the...
View ArticleAudio/video player controls should facilitate changing playback rate
Listening or viewing non-fiction/non-art (eg lectures, presentations) at realtime speed is tiresome. I’ve long used rbpitch (but more control than I need or want) or VLC’s built-in playback speed menu...
View ArticleFree Bassel, with apologies but no caveats
Since March 15 a year ago free software developer and colleague Bassel Khartibil has been imprisoned in Syria. The #FREEBASSEL campaign says “We will not stop campaigning for him until we see him as a...
View ArticleRealize Document Freedom Day
Open formats and open standards are excellent causes, but without free/open source software implementations and widespread adoption thereof, the causes are uphill battles, at best. So I’m appalled that...
View ArticleHow I earned a 286% return in less than 1 year investing in the Free Software...
At the FSF’s annual conference last year I pledged to donate 100BTC to the FSF, and did so on April 6. I bought about 121.95 bitcoins, for a price of about US$4.92/BTC (made easier thanks to Greg...
View ArticleBest Creative Commons infographic ever
By Falkvinge on Infopolicy columnist Zacqary Adam Green (also creator of the excellent Your Face Is A Saxophone cartoon). Already used in my presentation today at the Linux Collaboration Summit, (pdf,...
View ArticleWhy DRM in HTML5 and what to do about it
Kẏra writes Don’t let the myths fool you: the W3C’s plan for DRM in HTML5 is a betrayal to all Web users. Agreed, but what to do about it? In the short term, the solution is to convince W3C that moving...
View ArticleFreedom At Stake As Oracle Clings To Java API Copyrights In Google Fight
Developer Freedom At Stake As Oracle Clings To Java API Copyrights In Google Fight (dated 2013-03-30; I failed to complete this post in one sitting and let it sit…): Oracle lost in their attempt to...
View ArticleNon-auditable accounting software
Software Freedom Conservancy has a plan to help all non-profit organizations (NPOs) by creating an Open Source and Free Software accounting system usable by non-technical bookkeepers, accountants, and...
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