Linden Lab is releasing the source code for Second Life under the GNU GPL. Shunning modesty, they equate this with the release of Mosaic and the growth of the World Wide Web.
A lot of the Second Life development work currently in progress is focused on building the Second Life Grid — a vision of a […]
My jaw is on the floor. I missed this point, so I’m very thankful that Jessamyn West has pointed out one incredibly great thing about Casey Bisson’s WPopac.
Catalog records distributed freely under a CC or GNU license? Jumpin’ Jupiter! That’s monumental! That’s heroic! That’s…about damn time!
I’ve only just gotten up and had my first cup o’ joe, and I’m already cranky. It seems that O’Reilly’s lawyers sent a Cease-&-Desist to a not-for-profit tech group in Ireland for using “Web 2.0″ in a conference name. I would’ve told IT@Cork to take a page from James Joyce and tell O’Reilly to “K.M.R.I.A.” […]
HBO wants its programming to never, ever be copied–not on your Tivo, not on your VCR, not on your PC.
Well, HBO, I’m here to give you a simple solution to the problem of viewers copying what you broadcast. Are you ready? Okay, here it is: STOP BROADCASTING! But if you want to keep broadcasting, you’re […]
Rereading and thinking more about Linus Torvald’s statements about DRM and the third version of the GPL, I’m not sure I really agree with what he says. And while I think Richard Stallman can be a bit extreme (I disagree with his take on Creative Commons licenses, for one thing), reading this interview with him […]
And for another great take on DRM, check out Linus Torvalds on GPLv3 and DRM restrictions. Good stuff.
British librarians say DRM hampers the work of librarians.
“As custodians of human memory, a number would keep digital works in perpetuity and may need to be able to transfer them to other formats in order to preserve them and make the content fully accessible and usable once out of copyright.”
In its written submission to the […]
