Any Boston area Free Software folks who’d like to come talk to MS’s lead lawyer are welcome to stop by Harvard Law School today for a talk titled “The Future of Software, the Internet, and Innovation.” Come by- you might even get to see me explode with rage. ;)
Matt Asay and I have had our disagreements, but this is a great post by him on the links between the Reformation (specifically, the King James Bible) and Free Software.
Somedays the Berkman beat is pretty routine, but some days sovereign nations like Tunisia try to threaten your coworkers. (Background here and here.) Crazy. We hope everyone makes it out in one piece, but on the other hand, we’re glad it is becoming more apparent what a farce it is for the UN to talk [...]
It was pointed out over drinks (the Berkman Center is a happening place) that perhaps the better model for open source projects to use to think about trademark is not traditional software or business, but political parties. There is no trademark on ‘Democrat’ or ‘Republican’, or the donkey or the elephant, but those organizations manage [...]
I hear Dave Camp has completed his COBE training. Everyone should congratulate him.
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Had a great copyright meeting yesterday at the Center, on the impact of copyright in education. Could probably have locked everyone in a room for a week and still not have had enough time to cover all the issues. Best question of the day, to me (summarized): are the various educational exceptions to copyright law [...]
Unusual comment in #xchat-gnome last night, after discussion of the just committed network-manager support and pending gnome-screensaver support:
<purple_cow> bug list is getting awfully short<luisv> good problem to have :)<purple_cow> obviously people aren’t requesting enough good features<luisv> I’ll have to brainstorm tomorrow ;)
After talking about it in IRC, one thing that did come up that could [...]
Random stuff from the weekend:
More than 30% of American teens have created and shared work over the internet. This is a huge trend, and a great one for society. If we’re all creators the world is a richer place. (Interesting details in the article on copyright awareness.)
Yochai Benkler has a new paper up on peer [...]
Oh great not-so-lazyweb- I’m updating my resume for school applications, and trying to find a format that reflects the fact that I’ve had two parallel careers for the past four years- ximian/novell by day and gnome by night. Most of the layouts I’ve seen put such ‘volunteer’ work separate and towards the end, but that [...]
