Wednesday, September 5, 2007
At worst “intellectual property” produces nice paradoxes. Like this one: “Scientist has to pay to access his own paper“. The irony is thick when it turns out that when the paper left the scientist’s table, it was licensed with a Creative Commons license.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
K쎃스ytt쎃스j쎃스m쎃스쎃스r쎃스t ovat hyv쎃스n kokoiset varsinkin Saksassa ja Suomessa, digitoday kertoo. Mainospalvelinteknologiaan keskittyneen saksalaisen Adtechin Euroopan selaintilanteen seurannan mukaan Microsoftin Internet Explorer 7 korvaa v쎃스hitellen edelt쎃스j쎃스ns쎃스. Firefoxilla puolestaan pyyhkii Saksassa ja Suomessa oikein hyvin. Kummassakin maassa Firefox on suurin piirtein tasoissa IE7:n kanssa.
Here are some quotes on GPL: I try to always be pragmatic, and the fact that I think the GPLv3 is not as good a licence as the GPLv2 is not a ‘black and white’ question. It’s a balancing act. And if there are other advantages to the GPLv3, maybe those other advantages would be […]
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Firefox is growing fast: A study of nearly 96,000 websites carried out during the week of July 2 to July 8 found that FF had 27.8% market share across Eastern and Western Europe, IE had 66.5%, with other browsers including Safari and Opera making up the remaining 5.7%. The July market share represents a massive […]
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Elfride Jelinek got the Nobel in literature in 2004. Now she is publishing her new stuff directly & freely (as in speech) on the net: Jelinek, 60, has been posting chapters of the new book, “Neid” (German for “Envy”), as she writes them. The first two chapters of the work she describes as a “mixture […]
Updated July 9.: Mikko Puhakka has collected some analysis & commentary in his Open Source blog. *** June 30.: GPLv3 has been released. This is huge. Let’s see what follows. RMS in the press release: 쎢얓Since we founded the free software movement, over 23 years ago, the free software community has developed thousands of useful […]
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UPDATE: In Luis Villa’s blog there is a good entry on the “bounty-problem“, i.e., the question if one gets less effort out of volunteers by paying them. One empirical study concerns parents being late to fetch their children from day care. Installing a system of fines for being late made the situation worse. This is […]
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Lots of stuff happening around GPLv3 these times. First, Stallman giving the reasons fro migrating from v2 to v3. On a tangent, but related: Torvalds expressing doubts over Sun’s agenda on OS. He thinks Sun wants developers, drivers, etc. from Linux, without really giving much back, such as, e.g., releasing the ZFS filesystem of OpenSolaris […]
Jos jotakin, niin tilanne menee viel쎃스 sekavammaksi. Digitoday: K쎃스r쎃스j쎃스oikeuden mukaan dvd-elokuvalevyiss쎃스 k쎃스ytetty suojaustekniikka Content Scrambling System (CSS) on “tehoton”. P쎃스쎃스t쎃슶s on Euroopan ensimm쎃스inen, jossa otetaan kantaa tekij쎃스noikeuslain viimeisimp쎃스쎃스n muutokseen, joka kielsi muun muassa “tehokkaiden” kopiosuojausten kiert쎃스misen. Lain mukaan sellaista teoksen teknist쎃스 k쎃스ytt쎃슶rajoitusta ei saa kiert쎃스쎃스, “jolla tavoiteltu suoja saavutetaan.” Mit쎃스쎃스n kantaa kysymykseen sananvapaudesta (saako suojauksen […]
Juha sepp쎃스l쎃스 ei pahemmin perusta fi.wikipedian “Juha Sepp쎃스l쎃스”-artikkelista: Yll쎃스 lainattu on minua kirjailijana koskeva Wikipedian 쎢슝artikkeli쎢슝. Wikipedia-tietosanakirjan sanotaan edustavan open source -pohjaista 쎢슝asiantuntijuuden avointa jakamista쎢슝. Miss쎃스쎃스n painetussa l쎃스hteess쎃스 en ole n쎃스hnyt yht쎃스 kurjaa 쎢슝artikkelia쎢슝. T쎃스h쎃스n artikkeliin on ker쎃스tty avoimen asiantuntijuuden pohjalta painettujen l쎃스hteiden ep쎃스olennaisimmat, ulkokohtaisimmat ja yksipuolisimmat kliseet. Painetut l쎃스hteet ottavat yleens쎃스 luonnehdinnoissaan sent쎃스쎃스n huomioon […]
