http://importance.corante.com/ en-us ernest.miller@aya.yale.edu 2005-06-28T07:37:51-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/28/grokster_and_open_source_will_open_source_force_the_court_to_confront_sony.php What the heck does the Grokster decision mean for open source? I suspect that we are likely to find out. Up to now Hollywood has been satisfied in going after the commercial purveyors of P2P filesharing software. Undoubtedly, following the... 6239@http://importance.corante.com/ Copyright 2005-06-28T07:37:51-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/16/trademark_problems_for_firefox.php There are a number of trademark problems for the open-source browser Firefox, according to a report in ZD Net Australia, some of which have to do with the interplay between trademark and open source (Firefox Faces Trademark Squabble).... 6076@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-16T11:55:32-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/10/free_software_foundation_announces_goals_of_revision_of_gpl_to_version_30.php Yesterday, the Free Software Foundation made a major announcement about the goals of the revision of the GPL to version 3.0 (GPL Version 3: Background to Adoption).The substantive reasons for revision, and the likely nature of those changes, are subject... 6004@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-10T12:15:53-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/10/too_many_competing_interests_for_monolithic_drm_to_be_successful.php Jonathan Peterson has a short piece on why the DMCA is not about copyright infringement, but about preventing compeition and, more importantly, why this won't work (Why Open Computing Will Beat Closed Media).DRM has nothing to do with protection from... 5997@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-10T08:57:02-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/06/same_day_apple_special.php A Whole Lotta Nothing has one of the best lines on Apple's announcement of a switch to the x86 architecture (Dear Apple...):I figure it's just a matter of hours after the first intel-mac rolls off the line before we realize... 5926@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-06T13:10:55-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/07/21/the_cathedral_the_bazaar_and_art.php Today, Slate asks "Just how inventive can an anonymous group of people be" (Art Mobs)? "Collaboration is old hat," as the author says but, "until now it's been limited to a small handful of people, usually face to face. The... 5269@http://importance.corante.com/ Culture 2004-07-21T21:38:22-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/03/22/minority_languages_and_open_source.php The BBC reports that Microsoft is adding support for the Welsh language to MS Windows (Microsoft works on native tongues). It is great that Microsoft is supporting language diversity. However, this diversity is being supported at Microsoft's sufferance. Should MS... 5068@http://importance.corante.com/ Open Source 2004-03-22T17:43:30-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/03/04/court_using_linux_hears_lawsuit_claiming_linux_infringes_copyright.php I don't post much about the ongoing SCO v. Linux lawsuits, though heaven knows there is much to discuss in the case. For incredible, indepth, precedent-setting blog coverage of these lawsuits, see the justly famous Groklaw. Most recently, SCO has... 5016@http://importance.corante.com/ Open Source 2004-03-04T13:08:09-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/02/13/good_news_ms_windows_source_code_leaked.php Ed Felten on his Freedom to Tinker blog breaks some incredibly good news - Windows 2000 and Windows NT4 source code has been leaked on the internet (Windows Source Code Leaked?). Microsoft has apparently confirmed the leak, according to the... 4984@http://importance.corante.com/ Open Source 2004-02-13T05:03:06-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/02/09/new_ms_windows_now_with_less_functionality.php Fellow Corante blogger Open Mind says it best with regard to Microsoft's new plan to reduce functionality in Windows XP in order to sell less expensive copies in Thailand (What a brilliant strategy...): Customers should also wonder why Microsoft will... 4976@http://importance.corante.com/ Open Source 2004-02-09T19:38:59-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/02/03/issue_ads_and_responsibility.php John Palfrey takes an interesting and brief look at CBS's decision to air non-controversial issue ads, but not controversial ones, such as the MoveOn.org anti-Bush contest winner (Is anti-smoking not an issue?). Palfrey's intutition seems to be that there is... 4970@http://importance.corante.com/ Freedom of Expression 2004-02-03T20:35:38-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/01/15/hps_corporate_schizophrenia.php Late last week Hewlett Packard Chief Executive Carly Fiorina declared that starting this year all HP digital entertainment products will use software that respects the copyrights of artists. In other words, HP would become one of the leading proponents of... 4956@http://importance.corante.com/ Digital Rights Management 2004-01-15T00:20:50-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2003/12/18/openoffice_in_more_government_shops.php C|Net News reports that more government organizations, this time in Israel and Texas, are adopting or testing open source desktop software, such as OpenOffice, as an alternative to Microsoft Office software (OpenOffice makes government inroads). This is great news. However,... 4940@http://importance.corante.com/ Open Source 2003-12-18T09:18:24-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2003/11/20/federal_courts_adopt_linux_backend.php I haven't been following court technology very closely lately (mostly through frustration with their resistance to truly open court publishing), but this story caught my eye. The San Antonio Business Journal reports that PEC Solutions (motto: "Web-enabling Government") has received... 4929@http://importance.corante.com/ Open Source 2003-11-20T11:57:03-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2003/11/08/linux_desktop_in_the_workplace.php First, the CEO of Red Hat says you should stick with Windows for the desktop, in this Silicon.com story (Red Hat CEO says you should buy Windows). On the other hand C|Net News is reporting that IBM will announce on... 4884@http://importance.corante.com/ Open Source 2003-11-08T11:02:18-08:00