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Vienna Manipulations: it gets ever more interesting
Today there is finally a reply of Mr Lutz and Prof Bruck, both saying in unison in a computerworld.at article that there is proof of an email going to the conference participants to inform them about the existance of the … Continue reading
Vienna Manipulations update: Microsoft unhappy about reality
It seems that the blatant manipulation of the "Digital Rights and Creative Commons" panel outcome has created quite a storm. Besides those already referenced in earlier blog entries, I found this featured in Linux Weekly News, derStandard.at, de.internet.com, boingboing.net, netzpolitik.org, … Continue reading
Microsofts implementation of democracy
Software developers already know the tendency of Microsoft to have its own implementation of everything — which is generally and on purpose incompatible with the standard to allow Microsoft to force its desktop monopoly into other areas. That is essentially … Continue reading
More news about the Vienna Manipulations
Since their German article was so good, I asked Heise whether they would provide an English version of it, and they did. So you can now read the best analysis to date in English. Even more interesting: I received email … Continue reading
Vienna manipulations in the press
The discussion about the obvious manipulation of the Vienna Declaration on ICT and Creativity is spreading: Heise, Germanys largest publishing house for IT and related news published an excellent piece about the Vienna Declarations under the title Microsoft, die "Vienna … Continue reading
And the price for DRM promotion goes to…
Thanks to someone who pointed out the member list of the creativwirtschaft.at I have been able to check out where the rather uncritical view of Digital Restriction Measures (DRM) came from. As you can see for yourself, most of the … Continue reading
The next Vienna Conclusion: So it WAS Microsoft that asked to delete Free Software
The ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) features a report in its futurezone.orf.at section about the Free Software censorship described in my blog entry "The Vienna Conclusion: Sponsorship+Politics=Influence". They describe the situation, quote the rapporteur of the panel, Ralf Bendrath, that he … Continue reading
The Vienna Conclusion: Sponsorship+Politics=Influence
In June 2005, the Austrian government has been holding a very high-level conference on "ICT & Creativity" as part of the WSIS process. The dignitaries included Austrian chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel, Director-General of UNESCO Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNIDO Carlos Magarinos … Continue reading
Problems with e-waste? Send it to Africa!
The Basel Action Network (BAN) published an interesting report, titled "The Digital Dump: Exporting Re-Use and Abuse to Africa" in which they analyse the effects of many "ship your old computer to Africa" activities. Studying Nigeria as a role model … Continue reading
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Will Microsoft support the development agenda at WIPO?
Jonathan Murray, Microsoft’s CTO for the EMEA region felt compelled to comment on our recent announcement of the GPLv3 revision process for 2006. Naturally, I was interested to see what he had to say. Unfortunately he only seemed to go … Continue reading