Tag Archives: FOSS

Links to 15th May

By take21 | Published: May 15, 2009

Europe EUObserver: Commission gives Paris a pass over piracy billhttp://tr.im/lmSs French Senate Sets Up Three-Strikes Clash With Euro Parliament http://tr.im/lg3W French Assembly Finally Approves Three-Strikes By Slim Majority | paidContent:UK http://tumblr.com/xle1rl3p1 Digital Britain #digitalbritain UK Intellect response to Digital Rights Agency. Job done http://tr.im/lkgG CNET iPlayer interview: Anthony Rose on bandwidth, iPhone, not P2P, Air, DRM http://tr.im/ljlU Guardian, Rick Wray: that mobile […]

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iPhone NDA, patents, innovation

By take21 | Published: August 8, 2008

Extract “At my company, our lawyers advised us to keep what we considered more-or-less public software under NDA for a very long time because demoing software to someone under NDA, no matter how many people it is, avoids “publishing” the software and any inventions contained therein.  We know Apple’s been building up a patent strategy […]

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Free software usability

By take21 | Published: August 6, 2008

Matthew Paul Thomas has a piece which tries to get to grips with the causes of poor usability in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). He doesn’t dodge the problems and their origin in FOSS development methods and the rewards for participating in FOSS. He also has proposals for tackling the problems. Free software usability […]

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