The Register is running a nice, long article on Free Software and DRM. It has Richard Stallman’s view on DRM in general, as well as Lawrence Lessig’s sort-of-endorsement of Sun’s "open DRM" in particular. While the matter under discussion is hardly breaking news, the article sums the problem up nicely. Those who prefer their information only Read more »
To my great joy, today I discovered that two of my favourite radio stations – Deutschlandradio Kultur, and Deutschlandfunk – have recently started streaming their broadcasts in the truly free Ogg Vorbis format. (Better quality, too 🙂 Since these are public radio stations, they’re not just doing their listeners a favour. They are in fact Read more »
CPTech‘s Thiru in Geneva tells me that the UNESCO has published how it intends to go about implementing the Action Plan for "Access to information and knowledge", which was designed at the World Summit on the Information Society. The document makes a nice read, for a change from the usually rather drab UN stuff. Predictably, I Read more »
The first meeting of the WIPO Provisional Committee on a Development Agenda is over. The mood was rather conciliatory, compared to the rants and raves that took place during last year’s series of conferences on the subject. This made for snail-paced progress, though progress there was. At least, there now seems to be a draft Read more »
It is with a sour tone not quite in the Olympic spirit that Tom Giovanetti, everyone’s favourite lobbyist around here, has announced that he has detected a world record in the repetition of the term "Free Software". Predictably, the prize goes to Georg Greve, FSF Europe’s president. If you ever wondered how many times someone Read more »