In a commentary in the Financial Times on Monday, MIT's Eric von Hipple and Michael Schrage set out to convince Europe that it should bet its economy on user-innovation, but proved Schrage's own Law of Good Ideas – There is no idea so good that it's not pushed well past [...]
The FSF has finally released GPLv3,1 and Eben Moglen proclaims "the time is rapidly approaching when the GPL is capable of leveling the monopolist to the ground."2 There is no secret that the target in Moglen's sights is Microsoft, which had the temerity to reach patent peace agreements with Novell, [...]
The Guardian reports that Internet Service Providers might soon start filtering their networks for illicit music. This comes “after a ruling in Belgium, where the local ISP, Scarlet (which was once part of Tiscali) has been given six months to begin filtering out infringing peer-to-peer content on its network. The [...]
The Financial Times writes that “[n]ine out of every 10 singles are now sold through online platforms such as iTunes or downloaded to mobile phones, according to new figures from the British Phonographic Industry which show the growth of digital music offset by an accelerating decline in CD sales.” The [...]
The Register reports that “Sun Microsystems in the next few days plans to issue an update that plugs a serious security hole in the most recent version of its Java Runtime Environment, more than a week after providing a fix for the same vulnerability in an earlier version of the [...]