In what is turning out to be an ongoing series here on Digital Citizen, Apple has pulled another stunt on their customers: Endgadget.com says that Apple is upsampling lower resolution videos. In other words, Apple starts with a video at a rather low resolution and sells copies of it. Then they blow up that low [...]
Prof. Eben Moglen’s opening keynote from the “Wizards of OS” 3 (audio, play it now!): Die Gedanken Sind Frei (The Thoughts are Free). Informative, insightful, and a real crowd-pleaser. This talk is distributed under the Creative Commons By-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
As per usual, the EFF has important information and action tips on this surveillance amendment that Congress can sneak in through a port security bill.
They do for making programs and working on various projects, but the Open Source Initiative has quite a history telling people that it is okay to dismiss freedom talk. I think highly of people, like Eben Moglen, who are able to work so well with OSI advocates. I think it’s important we all work together [...]
From FISL7.0: James Gettys of One Laptop Per Child (audio) talking about the project. This recording is distributed to you under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license. If you’ve ever wondered about this project or are interested in getting viable modern computers to children around the world, OLPC has an exciting project. OLPC needs your [...]
Matthias Klang’s article in First Monday falls into a common trap regarding free software because they have an absolutist position on freedom, Klang promotes propaganda instead of clear thinking, and fails to do proper research. I’ll just consider the conclusion and a couple other parts.
I found Daniel Olivera’s part of this talk (audio) interesting (I only speak English, so I can only discuss the English parts of it), but I’d like to expand on the last part some more. This video is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 license. The initial versions of the Apple Public Source License [...]
GPL-violations.org has the scoop and Groklaw has commentary worth reading as well: Harald Welte, and his lawyer, Till Jaeger, co-founder of the Institute for Legal Issues of Free and Open Source Software have enforced the GNU General Public License (the preeminent free software license) in Germany again, this time against D-Link Germany GmbH. The first [...]
Now the EFF informs us that your investment in Microsoft DRM-laden tracks may be wasted if you hope to take them on the road with Zune: In yesterday’s announcement of the new Zune media player and Zune Marketplace, Microsoft (and many press reports) glossed over a remarkable misfeature that should demonstrate once and for all [...]
According to the New York Times: Those briefed on the company’s review of the operation say detectives tried to plant software on at least one journalist’s computer that would enable messages to be traced, and also followed directors and possibly a journalist in an attempt to identify a leaker on the board. I don’t tend [...]
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