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UK police already have the power to hack into suspect systems without a warrant, due to an amendment to the Computer Misuse Act, which came into force in 1995.However, security vendors Kaspersky Labs and Sophos told ZDNet UK that they would not make any concession in their protective software for the police hack....Em said that while police could provide details of the software it used so Kaspersky could avoid blocking it, the police software could also be used by cybercriminals. "While we wouldn't want to scupper police attempts to catch bad guys, police [hacking] software could end up in the wrong hands," Em said.Kaspersky would not put a backdoor in its software to enable the police to bypass its protections, Em added. "If we provided a backdoor, it could be used by malware authors," Em said. "People would be able to drive a coach and horses through our security."Once again, the experts have spoken: will the politicians listen? (Will they, heck....)Posted byglyn moodyat9:26 PM0comments  Links to this postLabels:computer misuse act,european parliament,home office,kaspersky,keyloggers,security,sophosOpen Cloud Conundrum, Open Cloud ConsortiumOne of the hot areas in 2008 was cloud computing, and 2009 looks likely to be a year that is equally occupied with the subject. But cloud computing represents something of a conundrum for the open source world. On Open Enterprise blog.Posted byglyn moodyat11:38 AM0comments Links to this postLabels:apache,gnu affero gpl,hadoop,open cloud consortium,open enterprise,public sector,thriftYou Know Your Software is Respectable When......big-name manufacturers start making hardware to support you:Netgear has just announced its Internet TV Player, a set-top box that allows users to play content from video streaming sites like YouTube, directly on their TV. Perhaps of more interest is the device’s built-in BitTorrent client, which makes it an ideal TV-torrent player as well.Netgear is a company that has its finger on the pulse of what users are doing and want; this is a clear sign that BitTorrent is mainstream now.Posted byglyn moodyat10:11 AM0comments Links to this postLabels:bittorrent,netgreat,youtubeTrees Will Save the WorldWe need more trees. This is what they did 500 years ago:The massive depopulation of the Americas via smallpox, hepatitis and other diseases introduced by Westerners (perhaps as much as 95 percent of the existing population died in vast pandemics) and the large landscape-altering scale of agriculture practiced across the "New World" by pre-Columbian cultures are two of the big themes of "1491." Both popped up in a presentation made by two scientists at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union last December. (Thanks to MongaBay for the tip.)The scientists contend that after the die-off, massive reforestation on abandoned agricultural land occurred on a large enough scale to contribute significantly to the period of global cooling between 1500 and 1750 known as the "Little Ice Age."After examining soil samples and sediment cores from numerous locations in Central and South America, Richard Nevle, a visiting scholar at Stanford's Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences at Stanford, and Dennis Bird, also from Stanford, concluded that the reforestation sequestered as much as 10 to 50 percent of the carbon necessary to cool the earth. Up until 1500, the soil samples showed a steady increase in charcoal content, likely generated from human-caused fire used to clear forest. After 1500, the scientists discovered a drastic drop in charcoal content. No more burning.The good news is that we've cut down so many trees, there's huge scope for harnessing this effect to mitigate climate change by planting lots of trees.Posted byglyn moodyat9:54 AM0comments Links to this postLabels:1491,climate change,pre-columbian,reforestation,treesThe Pink 'Un Starts to Get ItSurprisingly spot-on piece in FT today about netbooks. Key bit:The netbook category is posing a challenge for Microsoft, the biggest software group, as manufacturers turn to alternatives to its Windows operating system, writes Chris Nuttall.To help cut costs, the free Linux operating system is featured in many products, while the use of flash memory rather than hard drives along with ‘virtualisation’ techniques means that Windows is being bypassed in others.Consumers are beginning to associate netbooks with “instant-on” features, which mean that they can be used in a few seconds rather than waiting a few minutes for Windows to be booted. Posted byglyn moodyat9:12 AM0comments Links to this postLabels:chris nuttall,ft,instant on,netbooks,WindowsHow the OLPC's Rose Got its CankerThis blog post explains in painful detail how OLPC was "turned" by Microsoft - and hence why I have personally given up on the project:As part of a small personal project, I've been reading through the court exhibits presented in Comes V Microsoft. One of those exhibits is a chain of internal Microsoft emails discussing how to get Windows XP on the OLPC....Finally, in case you think I've failed to mention it: there is never any talk of "the best technology" or "educating or empowering children" or "customers/governments want Windows" or any such merit-based discussion. Outside of a brief mention of Academic Software offerings - literally the very last thing in the recap and suggested by the OLPC faction - the entire discussion revolves around what benefits Microsoft, what might hurt Google, and exploiting inside information they have on the OLPC project and OLPC people.Read it and weep.Posted byglyn moodyat8:11 PM0comments Links to this postLabels:canker,Microsoft,olpc,windows xpThe Library as Knowledge CommonsWhen the going gets tough, the tough...go to the library:Fewer people bought books, CD’s, and DVD’s in 2008 than in the year before. The number of moviegoers and concertgoers shrank last year, too, though rising ticket prices in both cases offset declining sales. Theater attendance, overall, is also down.We usually hear about these declines in isolation. But taken together, they seem to suggest that cultural pursuits across the board are on the decline. Indeed, if nobody seems to be out buying books, movies, and music, what are they doing with their leisure time instead?Apparently: going to the library. The Boston Globe reports that public libraries around the country are posting double-digit percentage increases in circulation and new library-card applicationThis highlights the *increased* importance of intellectual commons like libraries during times of financial hardship, when people can't afford to own so much stuff. It also suggests why we need support libraries through thick and thin.Posted byglyn moodyat7:49 PM0comments Links to this postLabels:cds,dvds,knowledge commons,librariesHe/She Speak de TroofThis is something that has often struck me, too: that installing/updating programs under GNU/Linux is hugely easier than under Windows.This is how you install and update software on Windows: 1. Open a web browser. 2. Download an executable file from an (often un-verified) source. 3. Press next, next, next, next, next, next, next, next, finish. 4. Launch your software. 5. Wait for each individual piece of software to nag you about the latest update. (”Logitech is going to look for updates…,” “Adobe PDF Reader version 8.4 is available. Please install it now,” “QuickTime needs an update (hey, mind if we sneak Safari in there, too? *wink*)”)On Linux, on the other hand, it works something like this: 1. Open Add/Remove programs. 2. Press a check mark and hit apply. 3. Launch your software. 4. Sit back as your software is automatically updated.We really need to beat the the drum more about this kind of stuff.Posted byglyn moodyat7:37 PM2comments Links to this postLabels:installing,upgrading,WindowsHow the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get RicherNot my words, but the subtitle of a book that apparently has wise words on the harm inflicted on society by intellectual monopolies:It is heartening to find more and more critics of our intellectual property regime, partly as a result of growing knowledge but more importantly, the growing critical reaction to the extreme excesses of the application of the law. A new voice for me is that of Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. whose book, THE CONSERVATIVE NANNY STATE; How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer, is available for download on line link here under a Creative Commons license. The book is about much more than IP, as the subtitle indicates, but this review focuses on the IP issues Baker covers. He calls the chapter, "Bill Gates Welfare Mom: How Government Patent and Copyright Monopolies Enrich the Rich and Distort the Economy".He begins by examining the richest man in the world, Bill Gates, and Microsoft, noting that it was not Gates hard work or brilliance, or the superiority of his software, but his government provided monopoly based on IP law that made him today's Croesus. Sounds my kind of book; moreover, it's freely available as a download (kudos). Our numbers are swelling every day....Posted byglyn moodyat7:07 PM0comments Links to this postLabels:bill gates,copyright,dean baker,intellectual monopolies,nanny state,patentsBehold the BiohackersThis is clearly getting serious:Katherine Aull's laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, lacks a few mod cons. "Down here I have a thermocycler I bought on eBay for 59 bucks," she says, pulling out a large, box-shaped device she uses to copy short strands of DNA. "The rest is just home brew," she adds, pointing to a centrifuge made out of a power drill and plastic food container, and a styrofoam incubator warmed with a heating pad normally used in terrariums.In fact, Aull's lab is a closet less than 1 square metre in size in the shared apartment she lives in. Yet amid the piles of clothes she recently concocted vials of an entirely new genetically modified organism.There's no stopping this now; great and terrible things will come of this....Posted byglyn moodyat5:19 PM0comments Links to this postLabels:bio-hacker,DNA,ebay,genetically modified organism,hacking,new scientist,thermocyclerIs Phoenix about to Enter GPL Violation HyperSpace?If ultraportables were last year's big surprise success for GNU/Linux, one of the potentially exciting technologies for this year is the instant-on pre-operating system that loads in seconds when you power up a desktop or portable. DeviceVM’s Splashtop is probably the best known example. These are highly relevant to the free software world, since such instant-on systems are usually based on GNU/Linux, and once people start trying them out, they may simply stay there using the free software apps available, rather than wait minutes for the full glory of Windows Vista to chunder into its vitiated life. On Open Enterprise blog.Posted byglyn moodyat4:54 PM0comments Links to this postLabels:Brian Proffitt,hyperspace,open enterprise,phoenix,splashtopGNU/Linux from...Marks & SpencerAs I've just written on Open Enterprise, the rise of the ultraportable/netbook was one of free software's biggest successes - and surprises - last year. It was particularly important for getting GNU/Linux into the hands of punters, many of whom were quite happy with it, contrary to the conventional wisdom.Looks like things are going to get even better for free software:Laptops will soon go on sale in Marks & Spencer and Next for less than £100, in the latest sign that the consumer electronics industry is tackling the recession by selling ever-cheaper products.Elonex, a small British computer maker, will start selling its ‘net books’ in the two fashion chains from February, in an attempt to win over a new generation of female shoppers to cheap computers.It promises its machines, which can fit inside a handbag, offer users all that laptop can – internet surfing, emailing, word processing, storing photographs – but on smaller scale. The screens are just 7 inches wide, the keyboard is slightly smaller than a normal laptop keyboard and the memory is limited. At that price, they must be GNU/Linux. Free software-based systems as an impulse buy in M&S? 2009 is already looking good....Posted byglyn moodyat2:48 PM0comments Links to this postLabels:elonex,impulse buy,Marks and Spencer,netbooks,open enterprise,ultraportableARMing GNU/Linux Netbooks for Success in 2009One of the surprises of 2008 was the runaway success of the ultaportable/netbook form factor. Now that systems running Windows XP are available people tend to forget that it was the low cost and small footprint of GNU/Linux that made this category possible in the first place. Without free software, the new machines would have been forced to run Windows Vista, making them too slow and too expensive - and hence failures. It was only because Microsoft saw GNU/Linux walking away with this nascent market that it executed a massive U-turn over Windows XP, and allowed it to be installed on these systems. On Open Enterprise blog.Posted byglyn moodyat10:46 AM0comments Links to this postLabels:arm,asus eee pc,netbooks,open enterprise,porting,ultraportable,windows vista,windows xpClimate Change Implies Open AccessOne of the answers to What Will Change Everything? is - reasonably enough - climate change. But interestingly it focuses on the way that climate change will mean that science itself must adapt and become more interventional:Climate may well force on us a major change in how science is distilled into major findings. There are many examples of the ponderous nature of big organizations and big projects. While I think that the IPCC deserves every bit of its hemi-Nobel, the emphasis on "certainty" and the time required for a thousand scientists and a hundred countries to reach unanimous agreement probably added up to a considerable delay in public awareness and political action.Climate will change our ways of doing science, making some areas more like medicine with its combination of science and interventional activism, where delay to resolve uncertainties is often not an option. Few scientists are trained to think this way — and certainly not climate scientists, who are having to improvise as the window of interventional opportunity shrinks.One consequence of this is that science will have to adopt open access. The pace and seriousness of climate change means that humanity does not have the "luxury" of hiding scientific results for six or twelve months: everything must be out in the open as soon as possible for others to use and build on. Delaying could literally be fatal on a rather large scale....Posted byglyn moodyat9:20 AM1 comments Links to this postLabels:climate change,ipcc,nobel,open accessVietnam in Open Source VanguardImpressive how far and fast Vietnam has moved on the government open source front:Accordingly, by June 30, 2009, 100% of servers of IT divisions of government agencies must be installed with open source software; 100% of staffs at these IT divisions must be trained in the use of these software products and at least 50% use them proficiently.... Open source software products are OpenOffice, email software for servers of Mozilla ThunderBird, Mozilla FireFox web browser and the Vietnamese typing software Unikey. The instruction also said that by December 31, 2009, 70% of servers of ministries’ agencies and local state agencies must be installed with the above open source software products and 70% of IT staff trained in using this software; and at least 40% able to use the software in their work.(Via Enterprise Open Source.)Posted byglyn moodyat11:03 PM0comments Links to this postLabels:Firefox,openoffice.org,thunderbird,unikey,vietnamOn the Wikinomics ParadoxIn the long run, what drives the wealth and success of an economy is productivity and efficiency. In my opinion, many of the principles of wikinomics continue to hold the promise of an extraordinary amount of efficiency and productivity to be unleashed, which should/ could have amazing long-term benefits. But in the short to medium term, I see the potential for a very difficult paradox - what makes the economy more efficient and productive as a whole causing a major dislocation of workers, who as we all know are also the consumers, and as they have less to spend the economy potentially shrivels up in a way similar to the paradox of thrift.Well, yes, but economics doesn't really enter into it (except as a by-product): what we're talking about here is mathematics. Things that can be done in a distributed fashion online, will get done (subject to a raft-load of caveats) because on the Internet - the Great Greaser - there's no friction to stop it. Whether people suffer dislocation doesn't enter into it - however regrettable it may be.Posted byglyn moodyat9:50 PM0comments Links to this postLabels:dislocation,economics,great greaser,mathematics,wikinomics paradoxThe (Intellectual Monopoly) Biter BitThe author of a proposed Chilean law to fight copyright infringement was greeted with the warning message "This copy of Microsoft Office is not genuine" when he was making a presentation about it. Whoops! [Google Translation.]Posted byglyn moodyat2:41 PM0comments Links to this postLabels:chile,intellectual monopolies,Microsoft office,presentationThe Once and Future EconomyGreat post by Tim O'Reilly about how we need to junk the idea that the economy can expand indefinitely, and move to a different system - one prefigured in the current sharing of code and content:The consumption of electronic media perhaps gives a foretaste of an economy in which qualitative complexity might replace quantitative addition as the raw material of exchange. Obviously, we're not there yet, as we're still consuming lots of resources to build the substrate for our increasingly intellectual economy, but I love that he's broken the naive assumption that if we don't have growth, the only alternative is stasis.This is yet another reason why the lock down of knowledge by intellectual monopolies is simply unacceptable in a world that will be predicated on sharing digital stuff, just as we used to share the physical stuff that Nature gave us a few hundred thousand years ago.Posted byglyn moodyat1:52 PM0comments Links to this postLabels:ecoonomics,intellectual monopolies,sharing,tim o'reillyBrainstorming with GNOME's Stormy PetersAs I wrote last week, foundations are playing an increasingly important role in the development of free software. I cited Mozilla Foundation and GNOME Foundation - although Matthew Aslett rightly pointed out that Eclipse is a leader, too - but in one respect Mozilla and GNOME are somewhat different. We hear a lot about Mozilla's plans, articulated by Mitchell Baker, now ably abetted by Mark Surman, but GNOME is rather less high profile. The same goes for the head of the GNOME Foundation, Stormy Peters, so I was delighted to come across this very full interview with her....(On Open Enterprise blog.)Posted byglyn moodyat11:12 AM0comments Links to this postLabels:gnome foundation,interviews,mark surman,Matthew Aslett,open enterprise,Stormy PetersComputational JournalismI like the sound of this:the digital revolution that has been undermining in-depth reportage may be ready to give something back, through a new academic and professional discipline known in some quarters as "computational journalism." James Hamilton is director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke University and one of the leaders in the emergent field; just now, he's in the process of filling an endowed chair with a professor who will develop sophisticated computing tools that enhance the capabilities — and, perhaps more important in this economic climate, the efficiency — of journalists and other citizens who are trying to hold public officials and institutions accountable.Sounds like bringing in openness to government willy-nilly....(Via @timoreilly.)Posted byglyn moodyat9:11 PM0comments Links to this postLabels:computational journalism,extreme openness,tim o'reillyOn Becoming a TwitIn the last three years, I've written just under 4000 blog posts. You might think that is more than enough, but for some time I have been conscious that I don't always blog everything I could or even want to. Often, I've multiple Firefox tabs sitting there holding juicy items that I think deserve passing on; and yet I never get around to writing about them. I've been pondering why that is, and what I can do about it.I think it comes down to two things. First, it takes a certain minimum amount of time to craft even the simplest blog posting: sometimes I just don't have the spare minutes/spare brain cycles to do that. Often, though, there is very little to say about the item in question - no profound comment is required beyond "take butcher's at this". What I really need, I realised, is a lightweight way of passing on such stories quickly.Enter Twitter.One of the interesting trends over the last year has been the steady rise of Twitter. Increasingly, I am finding bloggers that I read referring to stuff they find via Twitter, or to conversations conducted there. Clearly this can be a very powerful medium, if used in the right way. I've always been sceptical about the idea of twittering about every mundane detail of your life, but using it as a kind of micro-blogging tool is an attractive solution to the problems I've been experiencing.As a result, I've started using Twitter at twitter.com/glynmoody; updates aren't protected, so anyone can follow. Note that I won't generally be posting links to blog posts there, unless there's a particular reason for doing so. In part, that's because the info is meant to be complementary. But it's also because some kind soul (whose name escapes me, to my shame - please get in touch if you want your name up in lights - now revealed to be one Jonny Dover, to whom many thanks) has set up a separate Twitter feed for opendotdotdot (which also includes pointers to my other posts on Open Enterprise and Linux Journal) at twitter.com/opendotdotdot. This means that you can choose whether to follow just the longer-form stuff, or the new, reduced-fat posts, or - for masochists only - both.A few early observations on the medium.First, one of the reasons I have held off from Twitter is that its parsimonious format forces you to use a URL shortening service, the best known of which is TinyURL.com. I have inveighed against these several times, largely because of the fact that they obscure the inherently linky nature of the Web. Fortunately, things have moved on somewhat: you can now provide users of the shortened URL with a preview. This means that (a) they can see that structure and (b) they can be slightly more sure you are not dumping them on some manifestly infected site.Although TinyURL offers this service, I've plumped instead for is.gd, partly because it uses considerably fewer characters than TinyURL.com, partly because it has a shorter preview feature (you just add a hyphen to the end of shortened URL), and partly because it uses buckets of open source:is.gd runs on the CentOS operating system. The most major pieces of software used are Lighttpd (web server), PHP (scripting) and MySQL (database).CentOS:is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork.) CentOS is free.The coy "prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor" is Red Hat, in case you were wondering.The other aspect that has already struck me, after just a few days of using Twitter, is how you find people to follow. For me, at least, it's very similar to how I find blogs: I come across links to new ones in the blogs that I currently read. Similarly, I've found that a good way to find people who may be of interest is to look at whom the people I am following are following themselves. This leads to pools of people who tend to be reading and responding to each other - a micro-community at best, another echo chamber at worst.I've also made up a few rough and ready rules: no news feeds (I want real people, their opinions and their daily lives - isn't that partly the point of Twitter?) and nobody who can't be bothered posting on a fairly regular basis. I've also avoided most of the Twitter super-stars (you know who you are) as a matter of principle: I don't really want to follow people who are almost totally famous for being famous on Twitter, for the same reason that I read relatively few of the A-list blogs.Blogging has evolved considerably over the last few years, and I expect both it and Twitter to continue to do so - for example, in terms of them working together, fulfilling different functions (along with email, which completes the trinity of one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many interactions online). I've already found that I enjoy blogging more: I no longer feel obliged to blog about everything of interest, since I can push some stuff straight out on Twitter. Part of the fun of blogging and twittering comes from participating in this huge, collaborative experiment in open writing and open thinking; this means that your comments/tweets on any of the above are even more welcome than usual.Posted byglyn moodyat4:48 AM14comments Links to this postLabels:blogging,is.gd,jonny dover,many-to-many,one-to-many,one-to-one,tinyurls,twitterAnother Reason to Run GNU/Linux...And a pretty important one:The Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant. So why might GNU/Linux help? Well:He said the authorities could break into a suspect’s home or office and insert a “key-logging” device into an individual’s computer. This would collect and, if necessary, transmit details of all the suspect’s keystrokes. “It’s just like putting a secret camera in someone’s living room,” he said.Police might also send an e-mail to a suspect’s computer. The message would include an attachment that contained a virus or “malware”. If the attachment was opened, the remote search facility would be covertly activated. Alternatively, police could park outside a suspect’s home and hack into his or her hard drive using the wireless network. Er, and how are they going to break into my system to install the keylogger if they don't know the password? Attachments won't work: I'm generally clever enough *not* to open them, and even if I did, they wouldn't do much on a GNU/Linux box. And hacking my hard disc through the wireless network? I don't think so.Looks like free software is becoming even more about freedom....Posted byglyn moodyat7:03 PM16comments Links to this postLabels:freedom,hard discs,keylogger,wirelessNot That Microsoft is Desperate, or Anything...From the You Can't Even Give It Away department: the Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft - 150 items. (Via @Jack Schofield.)Posted byglyn moodyat2:03 PM2comments Links to this postLabels:free,jack schofield,MicrosoftMajor Win for ODF in BrazilGreat news for ODF in Brazil: it's becoming the official format for storing government agency dox:Já no passado mês de Abril de 2008, o ODF (Open Document Format) tinha sido adoptado como Norma Nacional no Brasil, mas agora sabemos por um comunicado da SERPRO que foi publicada a versão 4.0 dos Padrões de Interoperabilidade de Governo Electrónico (e-PING) que torna obrigatória a utilização do ODF na administração pública federal. A nova versão publicada pela Secretaria de Logística e Tecnologia da Informação (SLTI) do Ministério do Planejamento adota o Open Document Format (ODF), como formato padrão para guarda e troca de documentos eletrônicos no governo federal....Até a última versão da e-Ping o formato ODF constava com o status de recomendado pelo documento, sendo facultativo aos órgãos o uso, na versão 4.0 o ODF assume característica de adotado, dessa forma, torna-se obrigatório para todos os órgãos da administração direta, autarquias e fundações.[Via Google Translate: Already in April 2008, the ODF (Open Document Format) had been adopted as national standard in Brazil, but now we know for a release of SERPRO which was published version 4.0 of the Standards for Interoperability of Electronic Government (E-PING ) That mandate the use of ODF in the public service federation.The new version published by the Department of Logistics and Information Technology (SLTI) of the Ministry of Planning adopts the Open Document Format (odf), as a standard for safekeeping and exchange of electronic documents in the federal government. ...Until the latest version of the e-Ping the format ODF was recommended to the status of the document, and voluntary bodies to use, version 4.0 in the ODF takes characteristic of adopted thus becomes mandatory for all government agencies direct, municipalities and foundations.]As ever, Brazil's decision is doubly significant: important in itself, given the size of the country, and important as an example to others.Posted byglyn moodyat10:09 AM4comments Links to this postLabels:brazil,odf,standardsProject Gutenberg Made EasyIn my view, Project Gutenberg doesn't get the respect it deserves. After all, this effort to make the world's literature freely available in a digital form pre-dates free software by a decade. Partly, I suspect, this is because people don't know much about the process. Here's a great hands-on intro:Contributing my time, energy, and two books to PG was not my first excursion in UGC, but it is the first time I have allied myself with a high-profile international project. Adding content to PG requires patience, good social skills (for interacting with your proofreader), and the ability to intuit what needs to be done to get your contribution online. Here’s a journal of my recent experience. (See the sidebar Project Gutenberg’s Verions of the Steps on the right for the concise step-by-step directions for getting material into Project Gutenberg.) Posted byglyn moodyat10:04 AM0comments Links to this postLabels:project gutenberg,proofreading,respect,ugcDRM as Freedom-Eating InfectionI've often written about DRM, and how it is antithetical to free software. But here's an interview with Amazon's CTO, which provides disturbing evidence that it actively *reduces* the amount of free software in use:InformationWeek: Amazon is known as an open source shop. Is that still true?Vogels: Where in the past we could say this was a pure Linux shop, now in terms of the large pieces of the e-commerce platform, we're a pure Amazon EC2 shop. There's an easier choice of different operating systems. Linux is still very popular, but, for example, Windows Server is often a requirement, especially if you need to transcode video and things that have to be delivered through Windows DRM [digital rights management], so there is a variety of operating systems available for internal developers. Another reason to fight the spread of DRM. (Via @storming.)Posted byglyn moodyat9:55 AM0comments Links to this postLabels:Amazon,cto,drm,ec2,infection,Stormy Peters,transcodingWhy IPv4 Addresses Are Like OilIPv4 addresses are an increasingly rare resource. But I'd not spotted the parallel with oil until this:the US was still the largest user of new IPv4 addresses in 2008 with 50.08 million addresses used. China was a close second with 46.5 million new addresses last year, an increase of 34 percent.Although China and Brazil saw huge increases in their address use, suggesting that the developing world is demanding a bigger part of the pie while IPv4 addresses last, what's really going on is more complex. India is still stuck in 18th place between the Netherlands and Sweden at 18.06 million addresses—only a tenth of what China has. And Canada, the UK, and France saw little or no increase in their numbers of addresses, while similar countries like Germany, Korea, and Italy saw double-digit percentage increases.A possible explanation could be that the big player(s) in some countries are executing a "run on the bank" and trying to get IPv4 addresses while the getting is good, while those in other countries are working on more NAT (Network Address Translation) and other address conservation techniques in anticipation of the depletion of the IPv4 address reserves a few years from now.In other words, the greediest countries - the US and China - are rushing to burn up all the oil while there's some left, and to hell with what happens afterwards....Posted byglyn moodyat12:50 PM2comments Links to this postLabels:china,ipv4,oil,resources,usHappy Public Domain Day......er, yesterday:It is January 1st, which means that this morning at midnight a batch more “life-plus” copyrights expired in those countries — most of them — where copyright expires at the end of the Nth year following the death of the author.Yes, folks, it’s Public Domain Day! And it’s international! There are little Public Domain Day virtual commemorations going on in places like Poland and Switzerland. Spread the word!In the life+50 universe, which constitute the largest cohort of countries, including Canada, which collectively have the majority of the world’s population, life-plus copyrights expired at midnight for those authors, or last-surviving of multiple authors, who died in 1958.(Via Michael Hart.)Posted byglyn moodyat7:50 PM0comments Links to this postLabels:celebration,copyright,poland,public domain,switzerlandWill OpenOffice.org Go to the Ball this Year?I remain perplexed by the state of OpenOffice.org. After years of using Word 2 (yes, you read that correctly - by far the best version Microsoft ever produced), I jumped straight to OpenOffice.org as my main office software. Version 1.0 was, it is a true, a little on the, er, rough side, but since 2.0, I've had practically no problems - no crashes at all that I can remember. It's reasonably fast, not a huge memory hog (certainly nothing compared to the old versions of Firefox, or even Firefox 3.0, which still regularly eats several hundred Meg of my RAM for breakfast) and does practically everything most people who aren't Excel macro junkies could possibly want: what's not to like? On Open Enterprise blog.Posted byglyn moodyat1:01 PM0comments Links to this postLabels:cinderella,email,Firefox,Microsoft,mozilla foundation,openoffice.org,word 2Dear Mr Burnham....Tom Watson is that rare thing: a tech-savvy MP. And since he has taken the trouble of asking what people think about Andy Burnham's proposals to adopt cinema-style ratings for the Internet, I think it would be churlish not to respond. Not least because this kind of thing should be the norm, not the exception, and needs to be nurtured.Here's what I've posted on the site:As someone who has been writing about the Internet for fifteen years now, I obviously agree with the majority sentiments expressed above: the idea simply won't work at multiple levels. If attempted, it will be costly, and cause great collateral damage in terms of maligning perfectly harmless sites.But carping is easy: the real issue is what should be done instead.I think the key to solving not just this problem, but myriad other technology-related issues, is to tap the huge reservoir of expertise that exists both in the UK and elsewhere. It is simply folly to attempt to come up with solutions to complex problems ex nihilo; instead, we need to build on what people already know, and what they've already tried. This means getting people involved, at all levels.This would help not only in the current case, but generally when the UK government is grappling with the intersection of policy with technology. Sadly, previous decisions involving computers, the Internet and related areas have frequently ignored salient facts that have subsequently vitiated the proposed schemes.In summary, please don't even think about implementing clumsy classification schemes until more general structures are in place to help arrive, collaboratively, at ones that will work better.You may want to add your twopence.Posted byglyn moodyat10:43 AM0comments Links to this postLabels:andy burnham,classification,commentsLaying Down the LawEver since RMS drew up the GNU GPL, code and law have been inextricably linked. Mark Radcliffe provides a good summary of the last year from a legal viewpoint:Last year was the one of the most active years for legal developments in the history of free and open source (“FOSS”). http://lawandlifesiliconvalley.com/blog/?p=27 This year, 2008, has seen a continuation of important legal developments for FOSS. My list of the top ten FOSS legal developments in 2008 follows...Posted byglyn moodyat7:50 AM0comments Links to this postLabels:gnu gpl,law,mark radcliffe,review,rms,top 10A Good Foundation for 2009If I had to pinpoint major open source trends in 2008, one of them would be the rise in the foundation as a major force in free software. The best-known examples of these are probably the Mozilla Foundation and GNOME Foundation, both of which have expanded their ambitions recently. Here's what each has to say about its aims...On Open Enterprise blog.Posted byglyn moodyat7:26 PM0comments Links to this postLabels:foundations,gnome foundation,mozilla foundation,open enterprise,roberto galoppini,Stormy PetersProud to be LesserMatt has some thoughts on blogs - including this one:my primary interest is in digging up what's not already "popular." Unfortunately, I'm as guilty as anyone of recycling "news," but real traffic comes from breaking new ground, and I find that by scouring Digg and much lesser-known blogs....no Drudge Report for me. Instead I'll be reading OpenDotDotDot and other "lesser" blogs. Hopefully this will keep translating into rising Open Road readership in 2009. Maybe we'll break the top-5,000,000 by 2012. One can dream....Thanks, Matt...I think.Actually, I feel exactly the same way: I'd much rather read Matt's informed writing on The Open Road - born of real analytical intelligence *and* hands-on experience - than the frothy nonsense served up by "leading" blogs. The latter are most interested in traffic and in maintaining their position as blogosphere personalities: famous for being famous. They rarely contribute a deeper understanding of the world they write about. That's what we "lesser" blogs are for.Posted byglyn moodyat11:38 AM10comments Links to this postLabels:blogosphere,blogs,lesser blogs,Matt Asay,open road,personalitiesThe Super-Stupid Super-Snooping Database IdeaThis is just a jokette, right?The private sector will be asked to manage and run a communications database that will keep track of everyone's calls, emails, texts and internet use under a key option contained in a consultation paper to be published next month by Jacqui Smith, the home secretary.I mean, not content with attempting to put into place a total surveillance system, old Jacqui now seriously wants to out-source it? Which will effectively means that it can be owned by anyone - including a foreign entity - that buys the company with the contract.I can see the political advantages of doing so - "oh no, *we* didn't lose all your intimate data, blame the company" - but this is stupidity squared.Posted byglyn moodyat10:44 AM0comments Links to this postLabels:jacqui smith,outsourcing,super-snooping databaseLinus Plays Prince of Persia - AgainMost people in the free software world know that before he wrote Linux, Linus was using the Minix operating system. To run it, he had to acquire his first "proper" PC - his main machine until then was the Sinclair QL (remember that?). As he told me a few years ago, the PC arrived early in 1991....On Open Enterprise blog.Posted byglyn moodyat9:50 AM0comments Links to this postLabels:christmas,linus,minix,pc,prince of persia,Rebel Code,sinclair qlThe Commons of DarknessThose of us who are city-dwellers rarely see much in the sky at night; we have lost the commons of darkness. As a result, to view the terrifying multitude of stars out in countries with little street lighting is an almost mystical experience. Against that, er, background, here's an interesting idea:2009 has been designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Astronomy (IYA), marking the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s telescope. The excitement is starting early, with Galloway Forest Park in Scotland announcing its plans to become Europe’s first “dark sky park.”The forest, which covers 300 square miles and includes the foothills of the Awful Hand Range, rates as a 3 on the Bortle scale. The scale, created by John Bortle in 2001, measures night sky darkness based on the observability of astronomical objects. It ranges from Class 9 – Inner City Sky – where "the only celestial objects that really provide pleasing telescopic views are the Moon, the planets, and a few of the brightest star clusters (if you can find them)," to Class 1 – Excellent Dark-Sky Site – where "the galaxy M33 is an obvious naked-eye object" and "airglow… is readily apparent." Class 3 is merely "Rural Sky," meaning that while "the Milky Way still appears complex... M33 is only visible with averted vision."(Via A Blog Around the Clock.)Posted byglyn moodyat7:38 AM0comments Links to this postLabels:commons of darkness,darkness,galileo,galloway,starry night,starsExtreme Openness: the Rise of WikileaksThere is a long journalistic tradition of looking back at the end of the year over the major events of the preceding 12 months - one that I have no intention of following. But I would like to point out an important development in the world of openness that has occurred over that time-span: the rise and rise of Wikileaks....On Open Enterprise blog.Posted byglyn moodyat1:36 PM0comments Links to this postLabels:censorship,extreme openness,gordon brown,openness,wikileaksCollaboration Markets and Open SourceHere's a detailed and important piece that looks at the economics of scientific collaboration. One concept that may be of particular interest to readers of this blog is that of collaboration markets:There are good reasons it’s difficult to set up efficient collaboration markets in expert attention. Creative problems are often highly specialized one-off problems, quite unlike the commodites traded in most markets. Until very recently, markets in such specialized goods were relatively uncommon and rather limited even in the realm of physical goods. This has recently changed, with online markets such as eBay showing that it is possible to set up markets which are highly specialized, provided suitable search and reputational tools are in place.To the extent such collaboration markets do exist in science, they still operate very inefficiently compared with markets for trade in goods. There are considerable trust barriers that inhibit trading relationship being set up. There is no medium of exchange (c.f. the posts by Shirley Wu and Cameron Neylon’s on this topic). The end result is that mechanisms for identifying and aggregating comparative advantage are downright primitive compared with markets for physical goods.Perhaps the best existing examples of collaboration markets occur in the open source programming community. No single model is used throughout that community, but for many open source projects the basic model is to set up one or more online fora (email discussion lists, wikis, bug-tracking software, etcetera) which is used to co-ordinate activity. The fora are used to advertise problems people are having, such as bugs they’d like fixed, or features they’d like added. People then volunteer to solve those problems, with self-selection ensuring that work is most often done by people with a considerable comparative advantage. The forum thus acts as a simple mechanism for aggregating information about comparative advantage. While this mechanism is primitive compared with modern markets, the success of open source is impressive, and the mechanisms for aggregating information about comparative advantage in expert attention will no doubt improve.Posted byglyn moodyat11:26 AM0comments Links to this postLabels:collaboration markets,ebay,economics of scientific collaboration,michael nielsenHaque on Hacking EconomicsAnd yes, it's all about openness, collaboration and respect:companies who can build authentic, honest, open, collaborative relationships with consumers are significantly more profitable (and sustainably profitable) than companies who treat consumers deceptively, antagonistically, and manipulatively.Posted byglyn moodyat11:12 AM0comments Links to this postLabels:business,economics,hacking,umair haqueTimeo Danaos....Perhaps the most neglected pioneer in computing is Ted Nelson, who came up with most of the ideas of hypertext and linking, but got sidetracked for most of his life with the ill-fated Project Xanadu. One of my favourite computing puns is "I fear the geeks bearing gifts". So putting them together is an irresistible combination:Whether you love the computer world the way it is, or consider it a nightmare honkytonk prison, you'll giggle and rage at Ted Nelson's telling of computer history, its personalities and infights.Computer movies, music, 3D; the eternal fight between Jobs and Gates; the tangled stories of the Internet and the World Wide Web; all these and more are punchily told in brief chapters on many topics such as The Web Browser Salad, Voting Machines, Google, Web 2.0 and much more. These short stories make great reading – it's a book to dip in and out of.I have to say that's not exactly the book I would have expected Nelson to write, but then he's full of surprises.... (Via Iterating Towards Openness.)Posted byglyn moodyat9:55 AM0comments Links to this postLabels:books,danaos,geeks,greeks,hypertext,lulu,ted nelson,xanaduBusiness versus BusinessIt's pretty obvious why companies in sectors like oil production should be denying so vehemently that their products are major contributors to climate change. It's also pretty clear why many other industries would prefer not to think about the externalities of their business models, and how much they take without replacing from the environmental commons. But there are a few non-green businesses that not only believe climate change and environmental degradation is happening, but that it is large scale - and already hugely expensive:The past year has been one of the most devastating ever in terms of natural disasters, one of the world's biggest re-insurance companies has said.Munich Re said the impact of the disasters was greater than in 2007 in both human and economic terms.The company suggested climate change was boosting the destructive power of disasters like hurricanes and flooding. ..."It is now very probable that the progressive warming of the atmosphere is due to the greenhouse gases emitted by human activity," said Prof Peter Hoppe, head of Munich Re's Geo Risks Research."The logic is clear: when temperatures increase there is more evaporation and the atmosphere has a greater capacity to absorb water vapour, with the result that its energy content is higher."The weather machine runs into top gear, bringing more intense severe weather events with corresponding effects in terms of losses."The company said world leaders must put in place "effective and binding rules on CO2 emissions" to curb climate change and ensure that "future generations do not have to live with weather scenarios that are difficult to control"."If we delay too long, it will be very costly for future generations," said Mr Jeworrek. Not rabid greenies talking, but hard-headed representatives of a big business sector...Posted byglyn moodyat9:26 PM0comments Links to this postLabels:climate change,greenies,hurricanes,insurance companies,linux weather forecastLatvia Spreads a Little Light on OpennessEver wondered what those Latvians are up to with free software? Wonder no more:Latvia's Minister for Electronic Government Affairs Signe Bāliņa says open standards are key to improving efficiency and transparency in government.Open technology and open standards are fundamental to efficient communication with the government, the minister argued in her opening address at the Latvian Open Technology Conference in Riga on 12 November. She said the government needs to use open IT systems to allow citizens and businesses to communicate easily with the government. "We think it is very important these systems are open and based on open technologies and open standards."The conference in Riga, organised by the Latvian Open Technology Association (LATA), drew more than 250 participants from the central government, municipalities, IT firms and universities. LATA wanted to update the attendants on open source developments in the country and the region.Several Latvian businesses and institutions described their use of open source software. The telecoms company Lattelecom for example presented on the use of open source in their data centres and the Latvian University showed how it uses the open source e-learning system Moodle to offer on-line education. The university also employs open source for its data storage and to create grid computing services.There's also interesting stuff about Russia - somewhere I've long believed is set to emerge as an open source leader:Marat Guriev, a representative of IBM in Eastern Europe and Asia, gave an overview of developments on open source software and open standards in Russia. He described how the Russian military has been working on its own version of GNU/Linux, parts of which have recently been declassified by the All-Russian Scientific and Research Institute of Control Automation in the Non-Industrial Sphere (Vniins). According to Guriev, many specialised version of GNU/Linux distributions are produced, often in response to requests by local governments. In three Russian regions, most of the PCs in use in about a thousand schools have been switched over to GNU/Linux. Moreover, Russian science institutes are publishing their work on open source systems, he said, for example on the web site Linux Testing.I've written about the activity in Russian schools before. If you read Russian, you can read Guriev's presentation here - it has plenty of useful detail about free software in his country.Posted byglyn moodyat2:10 PM0comments Links to this postLabels:gnu/linux,latvia,Marat Guriev,moodle,russia,schools,Signe BāliņaWill 2009 Be Open or Closed?As the end of 2008 approaches, people's thoughts naturally turn to 2009, and what it might hold. The dire economic situation means that many will be wondering what the year will bring in terms of employment and their financial situation. This is not the place to ponder such things, nor am I qualified to do so. Instead, I'd like to discuss a matter that is related to these larger questions, but which focusses on issues particularly germane to Linux Journal: will 2009 be a year in which openness thrives, or one in which closed thinking re-asserts itself?On Linux Journal.Posted byglyn moodyat1:54 PM0comments Links to this postLabels:andy burnham,authoritarianism,barack obama,censorship,harold varmus,linux journal,open access,opennessWhat's in a Number?There's been a certain excitement in the blogosphere around the release of some figures about Firefox's market share in Europe. These show Firefox holding over 30%, while Internet Explorer is below 60%; alongside these, Safari notches up 2.5% and Google's Chrome 1.1%....On Open Enterprise blog.Posted byglyn moodyat8:26 AM0comments Links to this postLabels:browsers,chrome,chromium,Firefox,google,internet explorerAfter Newspapers - Who's Next?Newspapers are dying - or so you might gather from articles like this....On Open Enterprise blog.Posted byglyn moodyat8:10 AM0comments Links to this postLabels:IMDA,internet tv,internt radio,newspapersBBC, Meet Plughole....We are grateful to Andrew Pierce for his informative article about how the Foreign Office minister misled parliament with regard to the advertising of the post of Director of the World Service....To maintain the BBC World Service's reputation and credibility, the new Managing Director must be chosen through a fully open selection process, with full consideration of the availability and qualification of external candidates. In addition, a new managing director must be authoritative in news and current affairs, have wide international perspectives, must be capable of resisting pressure both from the UK government and from other governments and should not believe that the World Service can be founded on the perceived importance of marketing. To impose a closing date for applications of January 4, 2009 is to foreclose all these options.Read it, and weep.Posted byglyn moodyat8:46 PM0comments Links to this postLabels:bbc world service,broadcasting,open democracy,opennessTorqueing of Monopolies....I'd seen that Larry Lessig had written another fine rant about intellectual monopolies, this time in Newsweek. What I had missed in my cursory glance was something in the following paragraph:Since the birth of the Republic, the U.S. government has been in the business of handing out "exclusive rights" (a.k.a., monopolies) in order to "promote progress" or enable new markets of communication. Patents and copyrights accomplish the first goal; giving away slices of the airwaves serves the second. No one doubts that these monopolies are sometimes necessary to stimulate innovation. Hollywood could not survive without a copyright system; privately funded drug development won't happen without patents. But if history has taught us anything, it is that special interests—the Disneys and Pfizers of the world—have become very good at clambering for more and more monopoly rights. Copyrights last almost a century now, and patents regulate "anything under the sun that is made by man," as the Supreme Court has put it. This is the story of endless bloat, with each round of new monopolies met with a gluttonous demand for more.All good stuff. But what struck me was the "clambering for more": this, surely, was meant to be "clamouring for more". I can't believe someone as eloquent and erudite as Lessig got this wrong, so I can only assume we're looking at a sub-editor attack.I wonder if it qualifies as an eggcorn?Posted byglyn moodyat4:34 PM2comments Links to this postLabels:disney,eggcorn,intellectual monopolies,larry lessig,pfizerWestern Hypocrisy on Intellectual MonopoliesThere is currently a huge bun-fight going on at the WHO over who has the "rights" to "own" key genomic information about pandemic influenza viruses. This is tantamount to arguing over who has the rights to hire out deckchairs on the Titanic as it goes down: the idea that intellectual monopolies have any meaning in a world threatened by hundreds of millions of deaths from a new pandemic strain is beyond obscene.What makes this spectacle particularly disgusting is the hypocrisy of the West: not content with trying to patent the unpatentable, it wants the developing countries to give up *their* "rights" so that the West's industries can maximise their profit (failing to notice that it is hard to spend all this luvverly profit when you and/or your bankers are dead). Here are some of the sordid details:Several delegates participating in last week's Intergovernmental Meeting on Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (IGM) (under the World Health Organisation) from countries providing influenza viruses to laboratories and manufacturers in developed countries, privately mentioned that the positions taken by developed countries in particular by the US, Japan and the EU on issues such as intellectual property rights and benefit sharing reveals the "double standards" of those countries. On the one hand, the IGM saw the US, Japan and the EU pushing hard for relinquishment of sovereign rights, an interpretation of the International Health Regulations that obligates the sharing of viruses, text that requires countries to share as "all, as feasible, cases of H5N1 and other influenza viruses with human pandemic potential" with their laboratories in the name of global public health and pandemic preparedness.However, on the other hand, they appear unwilling to commit in particular their manufacturers and researchers that receive biological materials to any concrete benefit sharing scheme, or to address IP issues in a manner that benefits developing countries' public health and pandemic preparedness. Much of the framework's text that deals with benefit sharing continues to remain in brackets, denoting there is no agreement.Whenever reference to "manufacturers" and the need to have a better understanding of their roles and responsibilities was made by developing countries at the meeting, the issue was quickly passed over by the Chair of the IGM, Jane Halton from Australia. And countries such as Japan and the US insisted that the framework being developed should not dictate what the manufacturers or the researchers can do with the biological materials, or their roles and responsibilities. You would have thought that against the background of a financial system brought to its knees by blind greed, at least here at the World *Health* Organisation there would be a more, er, healthy and mature attitude to saving the world from a potentially even greater disaster. Apparently not....Posted byglyn moodyat4:20 PM0comments Links to this postLabels:deckchairs,greed,igm,jane halton,pandemic,stupidity,titanic,western nations,whoDo We Need a Google Street?Here's a jolly idea from those wacky burghers of St. Petersburg: some of them want to rename Engels Avenue there to Yandex Avenue, after the leading Russian search engine:Инициативная группа предложила поменять название проспекта Энгельса на проспект Яндекса, заявив, что классик коммунизма сделал для Петербурга значительно меньше, чем известный поисковый интернет-сервис.[Via Google Translate: The Action Group has proposed to change the name of Engels on Prospect Avenue Yandex, arguing that communism has done to the classic St. Petersburg is considerably lower than the well-known Internet search service.]Google Street, anyone?Posted byglyn moodyat2:16 PM0comments Links to this postLabels:burghers,google,st. petersburg,yandexPC vs. MobileOne thing that is evident is the continuing emergence of the mobile platform as a real alternative to the traditional PC. The iPhone and Android systems are the clearest manifestation of this. But here's another:For many Japanese adolescents, cellphone is inseparable partner of their lives, you might have heard. Different from PC, kids can have their own (not-shared with your family/siblings, not filtered by home-broadband), can bring it with you to school, outside, anywhere (it is important when your writing back within 5 minutes to your friend’s mail is the only way to prove your true friendship). The largest Social Network Mixi already got more page views from cellphone than from PC (and #2 Mobage and #3 Gree are mainly on mobile).Some are said to write their college reports by e-mail on cellphone. (*1) (*2) (*3)For those cellphone-adapted youth, PC’s QWERTY keyboard does not necessary be the best input device. They had to use PC keyboard fewer times on their computer class, however, 0-to-9 number pads are more familiar, even faster way for them.If number pads in cellphone order is more convenient, some youth feel easier to use it even for PC. Yes, there are some solutions.Keiboard+IE is USB external keyboard having cellphone-keypads, mouse-like joy pad and many short cut buttons (for IE, as its name implies).I do hope it's not *that* IE.....Posted byglyn moodyat8:32 AM0comments Links to this postLabels:android,ie,iphone,japan,mobiles,pc,youthOlder PostsSubscribe to:Posts (Atom)Subscribe To  Posts     Atom PostsAll Comments Atom All Comments Blog Archive▼ 2009(31)▼ January(31)Security Vendors Will Log the Police KeyloggersOpen Cloud Conundrum, Open Cloud ConsortiumYou Know Your Software is Respectable When...Trees Will Save the WorldThe Pink 'Un Starts to Get ItHow the OLPC's Rose Got its CankerThe Library as Knowledge CommonsHe/She Speak de TroofHow the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich an...Behold the BiohackersIs Phoenix about to Enter GPL Violation HyperSpace...GNU/Linux from...Marks & SpencerARMing GNU/Linux Netbooks for Success in 2009Climate Change Implies Open AccessVietnam in Open Source VanguardOn the Wikinomics ParadoxThe (Intellectual Monopoly) Biter BitThe Once and Future EconomyBrainstorming with GNOME's Stormy PetersComputational JournalismOn Becoming a TwitAnother Reason to Run GNU/Linux...Not That Microsoft is Desperate, or Anything...Major Win for ODF in BrazilProject Gutenberg Made EasyDRM as Freedom-Eating InfectionWhy IPv4 Addresses Are Like OilHappy Public Domain Day...Will OpenOffice.org Go to the Ball this Year?Dear Mr Burnham....Laying Down the Law ► 2008(1254) ► December(88)A Good Foundation for 2009Proud to be LesserThe Super-Stupid Super-Snooping Database IdeaLinus Plays Prince of Persia - AgainThe Commons of DarknessExtreme Openness: the Rise of WikileaksCollaboration Markets and Open SourceHaque on Hacking EconomicsTimeo Danaos....Business versus BusinessLatvia Spreads a Little Light on OpennessWill 2009 Be Open or Closed?What's in a Number?After Newspapers - Who's Next?BBC, Meet Plughole....Torqueing of Monopolies....Western Hypocrisy on Intellectual MonopoliesDo We Need a Google Street?PC vs. Mobile ► November(97) ► October(101) ► September(89) ► August(94) ► July(92) ► June(115) ► May(78) ► April(136) ► March(107) ► February(116) ► January(141) ► 2007(1380) ► December(135) ► November(162) ► October(134) ► September(80) ► August(83) ► July(105) ► June(97) ► May(92) ► April(100) ► March(95) ► February(112) ► January(185) ► 2006(1274) ► December(127) ► November(127) ► October(143) ► September(141) ► August(112) ► July(168) ► June(143) ► May(120) ► April(71) ► March(42) ► February(32) ► January(48) ► 2005(21) ► December(21)About Meglyn moodyI have been a technology journalist and consultant for a quarter of a century, coveringthe Internet since March 1994, and the free software world since 1995.One early feature I wrote was for Wired in 1997: The Greatest OS that (N)ever Was.My most recent books are Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, and Digital Code of Life: How Bioinformatics is Revolutionizing Science, Medicine and Business.I can be contacted at glyn dot moody at gmail dot comYou can follow me on Twitter at @glynmoodyPrivacy PolicyView my complete profile  Followers (15)Follow this blogStop following 15 FollowersView AllManage_uacct = "UA-259694-1"; urchinTracker();  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence. 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class\75\47post-count\47 dir\75\47ltr\47\76(\74data:i.post-count\76\74/data:i.post-count\76)\74/span\76\n\74b:if cond\75\47data:i.data\47\76\n\74b:include data\75\47i.data\47 name\75\47interval\47\76\74/b:include\76\n\74/b:if\76\n\74b:if cond\75\47data:i.posts\47\76\n\74b:include data\75\47i.posts\47 name\75\47posts\47\76\74/b:include\76\n\74/b:if\76\n\74/li\76\n\74/ul\76\n\74/b:loop\076'}, 'toggle': {'varName': 'interval', 'template': '\74b:if cond\75\47data:interval.toggleId\47\76\n\74b:if cond\75\47data:interval.expclass \75\75 \46quot;expanded\46quot;\47\76\n\74a class\75\47toggle\47 expr:href\75\47data:widget.actionUrl + \46quot;\46amp;action\75toggle\46quot; + \46quot;\46amp;dir\75close\46amp;toggle\75\46quot; + data:interval.toggleId + \46quot;\46amp;toggleopen\75\46quot; + data:toggleopen\47\76\n\74span class\75\47zippy toggle-open\47\76\46#9660; \74/span\76\n\74/a\76\n\74b:else\76\74/b:else\76\n\74a class\75\47toggle\47 expr:href\75\47data:widget.actionUrl + \46quot;\46amp;action\75toggle\46quot; + \46quot;\46amp;dir\75open\46amp;toggle\75\46quot; + data:interval.toggleId + \46quot;\46amp;toggleopen\75\46quot; + data:toggleopen\47\76\n\74span class\75\47zippy\47\76\n\74b:if cond\75\47data:blog.languageDirection \75\75 \46quot;rtl\46quot;\47\76\n \46#9668;\n \74b:else\76\74/b:else\76\n \46#9658;\n \74/b:if\76\n\74/span\76\n\74/a\76\n\74/b:if\76\n\74/b:if\076'}, 'posts': {'varName': 'posts', 'template': '\74ul class\75\47posts\47\76\n\74b:loop values\75\47data:posts\47 var\75\47i\47\76\n\74li\76\74a expr:href\75\47data:i.url\47\76\74data:i.title\76\74/data:i.title\76\74/a\76\74/li\76\n\74/b:loop\76\n\74/ul\076'}}, document.getElementById('BlogArchive1'), {'languageDirection': 'ltr'}, 'displayModeFull'));_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_ProfileView', new _WidgetInfo('Profile1', 'sidebar',{'main': {'varName': '', 'template': '\74b:if cond\75\47data:title !\75 \46quot;\46quot;\47\76\n\74h2\76\74data:title\76\74/data:title\76\74/h2\76\n\74/b:if\76\n\74div class\75\47widget-content\47\76\n\74b:if cond\75\47data:team \75\75 \46quot;true\46quot;\47\76\n\74ul\76\n\74b:loop values\75\47data:authors\47 var\75\47i\47\76\n\74li\76\74a expr:href\75\47data:i.userUrl\47\76\74data:i.display-name\76\74/data:i.display-name\76\74/a\76\74/li\76\n\74/b:loop\76\n\74/ul\76\n\74b:else\76\74/b:else\76\n\74b:if cond\75\47data:photo.url !\75 \46quot;\46quot;\47\76\n\74a expr:href\75\47data:userUrl\47\76\74img class\75\47profile-img\47 expr:alt\75\47data:photo.alt\47 expr:height\75\47data:photo.height\47 expr:src\75\47data:photo.url\47 expr:width\75\47data:photo.width\47/\76\74/a\76\n\74/b:if\76\n\74dl class\75\47profile-datablock\47\76\n\74dt class\75\47profile-data\47\76\74data:displayname\76\74/data:displayname\76\74/dt\76\n\74b:if cond\75\47data:showlocation \75\75 \46quot;true\46quot;\47\76\n\74dd class\75\47profile-data\47\76\74data:location\76\74/data:location\76\74/dd\76\n\74/b:if\76\n\74b:if cond\75\47data:aboutme !\75 \46quot;\46quot;\47\76\74dd class\75\47profile-textblock\47\76\74data:aboutme\76\74/data:aboutme\76\74/dd\76\74/b:if\76\n\74/dl\76\n\74a class\75\47profile-link\47 expr:href\75\47data:userUrl\47\76\74data:viewProfileMsg\76\74/data:viewProfileMsg\76\74/a\76\n\74/b:if\76\n\74b:include name\75\47quickedit\47\76\74/b:include\76\n\74/div\076'}}, document.getElementById('Profile1'), {}, 'displayModeFull'));_WidgetManager._RegisterWidget('_HTMLView', new _WidgetInfo('HTML2', 'sidebar',{'main': {'varName': '', 'template': '\74b:if cond\75\47data:title !\75 \46quot;\46quot;\47\76\n\74h2 class\75\47title\47\76\74data:title\76\74/data:title\76\74/h2\76\n\74/b:if\76\n\74div class\75\47widget-content\47\76\n\74data:content\76\74/data:content\76\n\74/div\76\n\74b:include name\75\47quickedit\47\76\74/b:include\076'}}, document.getElementById('HTML2'), {}, 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