Possibly interesting links I saw recently. A net-neutrality cartoon (thanks to tonnerre) Microsoft, antitrust and innovation an article by Georg Greve, who has also put some interesting open standards discussion in a blog entry. National Geographic article about languages dying, and a similar NY Times article An ogg of an interview with Stallman by bsdtalk Read more »
Possibly interesting links I saw yesterday. The Reg: Creative Commons sued for deception – what happens when a mega corporation uses freely licensed material in a way you wouldn’t like? (The journalist isn’t particularly smart, but the subject is interesting). ECIS’s Thomas Vinje on the EU Microsoft Decision, interview by Sean Daly, and An article Read more »
Possibly interesting links I saw yesterday. Globalisation Institute calls for a ban on bundling MS Windows with computers – this isn’t new for the free software community, but it’s interesting to see an outside group making the same argument. The Confusion of Tongues – an essay by Bruce Perens about the flaws in the EIF Read more »
Possibly interesting links I saw yesterday. Daniel Lyons of Forbes admits that he was wrong about SCO, and that Groklaw was right – after four years Stallman’s account of being in Peru during last month’s earthquake The Dutch government has committed to using OpenDocument format from January 2009 onwards A list of GNU software releases Read more »
Possibly interesting links I saw yesterday. David A. Wheeler’s home page – he’s written lots of interesting essays about free software History of free software – a Wikipedia article with an interesting External links section and some interesting content but needing more input. Blue GNU news site launches as a free software forum. To get Read more »
Possibly interesting links I saw yesterday. Microsoft HD Photo considered for standardisation by JPEG committee – this will need some looking into, particularly to see how useful the patent promise really is. No details available yet. Signal and Noise in GPLv3 – an article about the media representation of the GPLv3 discussions, explaining that they Read more »
Possibly interesting links I saw yesterday. Open Source Initiative have approved the "CPAL" Adware licence – we can only hope that people ignore this recommendation. SugarCRM did so immediately; they moved to GPLv3 instead. Groklaw article on Microsoft and Open Source Initiative (not related to the adware issue). Article on Eben Moglen at OSCON, a Read more »
Possibly interesting links I saw yesterday. Dinosaur Comics – about punch A GIMP 2.4 release candidate is coming soon, and the developers are of course looking for testers and some website help. The Open Library has launched to put freely licensed and public domain books online. This looks very similar to what Project Gutenberg has Read more »
It’s proven harder than I thought to find 4 or 5 good links per day. I’m going to keep trying, but I’ll probably expand this to include some musings too – and then find a new name for the series. UK rejects music copyright extension – it’s great news, but the article is a bit Read more »
Possibly interesting links I saw yesterday (July 16th 2007). XKCD cartoon: NP-Complete ordering in restaurants Mark Radcliffe on 10 benefits of GPLv3 The Converter Hoax – an FSFE article about OOXML-ODF converters Wikipedia chart of most viewed articles Google’s timeline searches, for example: GNU or "free software" See also: the archive of Yesterday’s Links. — Read more »