According to an article by Declan McCullagh at News.com, AOL plans to revise its user agreement after the uproar over their excessively restrictive terms. I mentioned the AIM Terms of Service here.
...On his blog Lawrence Lessig notes that he's commited himself to open access for future works to be published in academic journals.
Quote: "I will not agree to publish in any academic journal that does not permit me the freedoms of at least a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial ...
Newsflash: Technology can be used for bad things too
Next on Persecution Today: Psychologist warns phone is evil, as it can be used by paedophile's to exchange information, printers should be banned because the can be used to print illegal photos.
...The article European Union is a banana republic points out that thanks to the Software patents debacle one of the first results if you search for "banana republic" on Google is now a EU website.
Let's make it worse. Link to the EU ...
The gpl-violations.org project is just what it says - a project to track and address violations of the GNU General Public License
In Manageability - The Long Tail of Recombinant Components, Carlos E. Perez expands on the previously discussed article
The Long tail of Software. Millions of Markets of Dozens by addressing how this relates to recombinant ...
Related to yesterdays entry on paywalls I thought it worth pointing to The Scotsman Digital Archive
The Scotsman has made every copy from 1817 to 1930 available online. The archive is NOT free - it costs from £7.95 for a 24 hour pass to ...
The BBC reports that the UK's NHS is 'taking away Africa's medics'.
While these are people who voluntarily come to the UK seeking a better life, the article raises some serious questions:
- The BBC claims the doctors and nurses ...
Over the years, one of the things that have kept fascinating me is the subject of runtime type composition. In other words: Combining a complete type from separate implementations of interfaces.
Or more specifically, how to do this in an efficient way in a statically typed language, such as C++. ...