I have been waiting for a full-scale patent war over open source to take place in the near future. Yet, the war has not broken, other than the issuing of cease-and-desist letters to some open source projects, the war has Read more…
This is the story of Vores Øl (Our Beer), the world’s first open source beer. The beer is distributed using an Attribution-Share Alike Creative Commons licence. The recipe produces a 6% energetic beer (it uses Guarana), and according to the Read more…
This is an image taken from a discussion about emergent networks, terrorism and open source (it does make sense after you’ve read it). However, I found it interesting because it follows some research that I have been conducting regarding the Read more…
[First seen here] This is a new case from the High Court of England and Wales (Patent Court). The case is Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. v Smith International. The litigation involved two different types of technology, a cone drill to Read more…
I have just received my first phishing email in French. Here it is: Monsieur/Madame le possesseur de carte de crédit MasterCard, Nous sommes désolés de vous informer que nous avons dû bloquer temporairement l’accès à votre carte de crédit pour Read more…
From the same people who brought us the War on Terror, and who has successfully continued to wage the War on Drugs, here comes the War on Piracy. The Commerce Secretary of the United States, Carlos Gutierrez, is appointing the Read more…
A light story for Sunday. I met some of the people involved during the OSS 2005 Conference, led by Roland Alton-Scheidl. They are also involved with Creative Commons Austria, and have decided to release open source water. The water comes Read more…
This is an excellent article in PC Magazine (how can that co-exist with Dvorak’s now infamous article?). Microsoft is planning to implement RSS support into their future version of Internet Explorer and Windows (Windows Vista, formerly known as Longhorn). The Read more…
The International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI) has released data announcing that music downloads from licensed providers (that sounds better than legal downloads, doesn’t it?) has trippled in 2005. According to the site: Single track downloads in the US, the Read more…
Many of us are familiar with university rankings. There is a new index that ranks universities by their web presence. This index is achieved by a combination of factors. The first is the size, the actual amount of files in Read more…