The Economist points out that Europe’s economic recovery can last only if “if its governments take advantage of sunnier times to make deeper reforms. […] European countries that have introduced radical reforms have usually done so in times of serious economic crisis: Britain in 1979, the Netherlands in 1982, Ireland [...]
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 [...]