Open Source Voices

Your Money or Your Life

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Remember patents? They’re those things that are supposed to promote innovation. Take surgeons, for example: they would never invent new ways of saving lives without some kind of financial incentive to do so - I mean,…

Linux: Too Much of a Good Thing?

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The transformation of the Linux Foundation from a rather sleepy, peripheral player into one of the main voices for open source has been fascinating to watch. It’s certainly welcome, too, because one of the problems of…

open…: BBC Hoist By Its Own Petard

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Oh, this is rich:A revised version of FairUse4WM reappeared on forums late last week, and the utility now effectively strips the DRM from iPlayer content allowing it to be copied and played into perpetuity rather than…

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Has the BBC Duped Us over iPlayer?

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You may remember that a little while back there was a bit of a kerfuffle about the BBC’s decision to go with a Microsoft-based DRM solution for its download service. Initially we were told that only six people and a…

Is Google Summer of Code Fizzling Out?

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I’ve always assumed that Google’s Summer of Code, a generous if self-interested offer to pay for students to do some directed open source coding during school/university holidays, was wildly popular - after all, who…