A nice overview of how power structures work in Groklaw. I haven’t followed this stuff too closely, but it seems that again the hawks in the industry have gotten what they want by manipulating a UN conference into supporting DRM rather than FOSS as a driving force for innovation…
(note: the link to George Creeve’s […]

The Register keeps following all the trouble around Wikipedia: Who owns your Wikipedia bio?:

“It’s got the public playing the encyclopedia game,” he told us recently. “It’s also like playing a game in the sense that playing it has no consequences. If something goes wrong, you just restart. No problem!”
I think it won’t be for long […]

The Big Blue Yonder - Issues 2006 - MSNBC.com - interesting read on IBM’s patent sharing program. Nice quote:
One of the big advantages of the open-source philosophy is that it allows executives to use altruistic language in justifying decisions that happen also to coincide with their business interests.
I wonder whether their opening of patents […]

On the various IRC channels I hang out, people are regularly raking up the Sony debacle and asking whether it is safe to buy some CD.
I have decided otherwise - there’s iTunes Music Store (ITMS), but also All of Mp3 which is up to 10 times cheaper than ITMS - no more shiny discs […]