Tag Archives: John Gruber

July #3

Zimbabwe Guardian activate video: resisting repression in Zimbabwe with web media and text messages bit.ly   Online privacy via Resourceshelf: How to read a privacy policy  tr.im   Who pays for news? Columbia Journalism Review: Who pays for news? Their paywall will deter some readers.. bit.ly Gruber on David Simon’s Columbia Journalism Review piece on […]

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iPhone NDA, patents, innovation

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

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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