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{ Monthly Archives } March 2006

Same song, different verse: Will you still love these words at election time?

Molly Ivins’ latest essay on what’s wrong with the DLC Democrats is right on, strongly-worded, strident, and she names names (and I don’t say any of that to connote something bad, I wish more people would say what they mean in clear unadulterated language free of business-friendly doublespeak).
But only time will tell if she backs [...]

2006 03 23 J.B. Nicholson-Owens Politicos Comments Off

How to raise the stakes too far with copyright and patent law.

The Business Software Alliance (BSA), Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and their friends (undoubtedly including the big book publishers and their representative associations), have found a new way to push the argument of copy control too far.
Freedom to Tinker has the story and its well worth reading.
On a [...]

2006 03 19 J.B. Nicholson-Owens Free Software Comments Off