In a sign of a snarkier times to come for the New York Times, The Register’s Ashlee Vance has announced that he’ll be joining the Times, effective September 2. Ashlee is, of course, my cohort (along with MuleSource’s Dave Rosenberg) on the Open Season podcast, which may …
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Most enterprises needn’t worry about the “viral” aspect of open-source licenses. Because most enterprises use software for internal purposes, rather than distribute it, they don’t trigger the standard open-source stipulation to contribute back derivative works. A current Federal Computer Week article by John Moore does an admirable job …
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The Guardian had a fantastic set of articles this weekend addressing the role of Google in the world. One particularly intriguing piece comes from Adam Curtis, a documentary director, who notes:
Google is a paradox. It gives us the feeling we are wild and free individuals, powerfully reinforcing an idea of us as heroic figures in the consumer age. Yet at the same time it is powerfully proving the opposite - that we’re completely predictable. Out of that’s going to come some very interesting political ideas of how to organise society and also new artistic ideas.
I think we’re going to see Google given a run for its money, with more and better ways of filtering information to consumers and businesses. Each of these, however, will take us one step closer to becoming assimilated into a Borg-like information-dense existence, one largely devoid of privacy and meaningful, individual choices.
Author Andrew Keen advocates:
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According to The Register, the “Taiwanese Consumer Foundation…claims [Microsoft] is effectively using its monopoly to force sales of Vista.”
How? Well, as the TCF reasons, since most buyers would prefer XP, as demonstrated by their installing XP even after buying a Vista-enabled computer, forcing them to purchase Vista in …
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