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Amazon Escapes the App Trap Too
Apple's inflexibility and greed has forced Amazon to release an HTML 5 Kindle that you'll love.
by Simon Phipps
You may remember in June I commented on how the Financial Times had decided to opt out of Apple's sharecropping App Store scheme for publishers. If you followed the links in the last sentence you will have noticed I expected...
August 10, 2011 2:30 PM Read Full Post
OSCON Round-up
Open source is not declining; it's just sufficiently mature that marketeers aren't able to fool people with the term any more
by Simon Phipps
Reading some stories recently, it would be easy to conclude that there was some sort of a decline in open source. I'll not pretend to have new and objective data on the subject, but having just returned from OSCON in...
August 8, 2011 9:09 AM Read Full Post
The Open Cloud Initiative
Will the new Open Cloud Initiative be able to unite the software freedom community behind its move to define a freedom-loving cloud?
by Simon Phipps
Yesterday saw the launch of the Open Cloud Initiative here at OSCON in Portland. It has the potential to steer the evolution of cloud computing just as the Open Source Initiative did. With every cloud provider today either using centralised...
July 27, 2011 3:21 PM Read Full Post
Out Of Tune With Community
"Project Harmony" has released v1.0 of its agreements. But should you use them?
by Simon Phipps
Controversial in certain circles, the work of a loose grouping of people to create a set of standardised contributor agreements for open source projects at "Project Harmony" has reached its 1.0 milestone. At the website you'll find a release version...
July 14, 2011 9:00 AM Read Full Post
Investing In Open Source
Does your company use open source software? Do they contribute to it in any way? If not, perhaps you should follow the Brazilian government's lead.
by Simon Phipps
Last week I was a speaker at FISL, one of the world's largest software freedom conferences, held in the far south of Brazil (where it's winter and cold, just in case you were concerned I had too much fun!) In...
July 7, 2011 11:00 PM Read Full Post
FUD Barriers For Open Source Non-Profits?
Are US open source organisations having their applications for non-profit status blocked?
by Simon Phipps
In a post to a private mailing list I follow, Software Conservancy chief Bradley Kuhn has confirmed that an unexpected problem highlighted recently by CASH Music is indeed a real issue for open source groups in the USA seeking to...
July 1, 2011 12:09 PM Read Full Post
Control Considered Harmful
When companies try to artificially control the way their digital products get used in today's connected society, we all lose.
by Simon Phipps
When society was arranged as a series of intermediaries serving disconnected clients, distinguishing clients from non-clients was a key element of business. But in a meshed, massively connected society, simulating that world using artificial control mechanisms simply does harm. First,...
June 24, 2011 10:00 AM Read Full Post
The FT Escapes The App Trap
The decision by the Financial Times to scrap its native Apple iOS app and switch to HTML5 illuminates the whole conflict of Apple and the new world of mobile publishing.
by Simon Phipps
I got an e-mail from the Financial Times yesterday, announcing their new "FT App". That sounded unusual; after all, the FT has had an iPad/iPhone app for some time. I took a look, and found the whole world of mobile...
June 16, 2011 2:48 PM Read Full Post
OpenOffice.Org and the LibreOffice Imperative
The best thing end-users can do is ignore OpenOffice.org at Apache until the dust settles, and switch to LibreOffice instead.
by Simon Phipps
As expected, the Apache Software Foundation took the first steps to admitting the OpenOffice.org project to the Apache community, following Oracle's IBM-designed proposal. It now faces a time of maturing and proving in Apache's Incubator, a period when user-facing development...
June 14, 2011 9:09 AM Read Full Post
Happy IPv6 Day
The Why, How and What of IPv6 Day
by Simon Phipps
Today is IPv6 Day; here's a link round-up to celebrate. But don't panic.Wikipedia: IPv6 First, this is an uber-geeky topic for most of us. As usual, Wikipedia does an excellent job explaining it:Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a version...
June 8, 2011 8:08 AM Read Full Post
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