Archive for August 6th, 2008
It was depressing to read that William Patry, Google’s senior copyright counsel, has decided to stop blogging. With only occasional gusts of lucid intelligence in the blogging community, Patry’s blog was a full-out gale.
Due to “crazies…who don’t have a life of their own and so insist on ruining the lives of others” by comment-bombing Patry’s blog, and due to the deteriorating use of copyright to harm rather than help, Patry has opted to leave the blogging building:
Copyright law has abandoned its reason for being: to encourage learning and the creation of new works. Instead, its principal functions now are to preserve existing failed business models, to suppress new business models and technologies, and to obtain, if possible, enormous windfall profits from activity that not only causes no harm, but which is beneficial to copyright owners. Like Humpty Dumpty, the copyright law we used to know can never be put back together again.
On the “crazies,” I absolutely comprehend. Anonymity and geographical distance make people bold to state things that ought not be stated. I’m also guilty of this. I suspect we all are. Some things are too easily stated with a keyboard.
But on the latter, it’s dispiriting to see confirmation from such a copyright expert that we might be past redemption. In both copyright and patent law, the powerful continue to hoard their power (which is natural), while judges and lawmakers seek to capitulate to that power (which is not natural–or shouldn’t be).
… Source:The Open Road
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Someone needs to tell the Open Source Initiative, Google, and others who fret about license proliferation that the market has already cut down the number of actively used licenses to just a small handful: L/GPL, BSD/Apache, MPL, and a few others (EPL, CPL). Even so, the OSI has …
Source:The Open Road
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Filed under: Enterprise, Internet Tools
 Egnyte, another entry in the list of “cloud storage” applications, has updated to version 1.5 with some valuable new features. Geared toward organizations and businesses needing centralized document storage, it provides a cross-platform solution for uploading, storing, sharing and collaborating on files. The latest version of Egnyte features:
- Shared and private folders
- File versioning
- A tagging system for non-hierarchical file organization
- Readily-available previews of compatible image formats
- Folder export with zip archiving/compression
- WebDAV support and an accompanying Mac desktop application
- Continuous backup of local files
- Cross-platform compatibility
- Per-folder access control
Egnyte 1.5 has become a viable FTP replacement for medium to big organizations with multiple, project-specific FTP repositories. A new drag and drop interface allows any user to upload multiple files of any size, and provides in-memory compression for faster transfers. A “Hot Sharing” feature quickly generates public URLs for hosted files, allowing simple collaboration with users outside of your Egnyte account without requiring a login.
Pricing begins at $15/month per “Power User” (administrative users) and includes unlimited access for “Standard Users” (everybody else). Standard Users don’t get the desktop access (WebDAV) or its related capability to automatically back up local files to the Egnyte server; add $15/mo for each user who will require those abilities. Special pricing is available for non-profits and academic institutions. See the Egnyte homepage for more information.
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Filed under: Freeware, Internet Tools
 AmazonWatcher is a simple application that, well, watches Amazon. After putting in the Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN) for whatever you want to watch, the application can be set to alert you whenever the item is in stock (if you’re still waiting for a Wii, for instance) or when the item drops below a certain price. In addition to sounding an alert AmazonWatcher can send you an email or even automatically order an item if you’ve Amazon’s 1-Click active for your account.
AmazonWatcher is a free download for Mac (or PC). The website does not indicate whether or not this application makes use of Amazon’s affiliate program when ordering.
[Via jkOnTheRun]
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There are certain things that open-source and Software as a Service (SaaS) companies increasingly need, and which a new crop of vendors is rising to provide.
On the one hand, as JasperSoft’s recent outsourcing of its forge software demonstrates, open-source companies need a place in which they can engage …
Source:The Open Road
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Filed under: Software, World wide web Tools, Security
 Consumer Reports, in its annual internet security survey, suggested that Mac users avoid Safari because of its lack of phishing protection. Instead, they advocate users install Firefox 3 or Opera 9.5 as their default browsers, since both will warn users before displaying the contents of sites known to be source of scams and personal information theft.
Jeff Fox, technology editor at Consumer Reports, noted that “e-mail is the weak vector on the Mac,” meaning that most successful phishing attacks on Mac users arrive via email.
“Windows users are used to being paranoid about not clicking [links in phishing emails],” he said. “Mac users aren’t, even though they say, ‘Antivirus software, who needs it?’”
As we’ve mentioned before, 1Password does a great job of adding phishing protection to Safari. Also, always be extra-wary of clicking links in emails from people you don’t know.
[Via Computerworld.]
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Filed under: Software, World wide web Tools
 Softpress Systems has released Freeway 5.2, which includes new tools for building web pages for iPhone and iPod touch. Freeway is WYSIWYG website creation software that features a traditional, page-layout approach and omits the need to write any code (unless, you know, you really want to handcraft your HTML).
New in version 5.2 is the capability to create iPhone home screen icons and custom links to iPhone applications like Mail, Phone, Maps, and YouTube. Also, Freeway helps prepare QuickTime videos for playback on iPhone under a variety of network conditions.
Additionally, Softpress has published a best practices document for publishing web sites for the iPhone and iPod touch. The “Building websites for the iPhone with Freeway” document can be found on the Softpress website.
The update is free for registered users of Freeway 5 or higher. For new users, it’s available in two flavors: Freeway 5 Express ($79) and Freeway 5 Pro ($249). The differences between the two versions are available here.
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