Category Archives: Open Source v. Proprietary

General Purpose Computation, Open Source, and Maybe Richard Stallman was Right

  The Coming War on General Purpose Computation – Boing Boing.   And here is an article that reminds us of how what Richard Stallman said in the past, which was often written off as paranoid, might actually have been prescient. This is what Stallman has been warning us about all these years – and …

January 3, 2012 – 8:02 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Innovator/Pirates, Open Source v. Proprietary | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)

Patent_Absurdity_HQ_768kbit.ogv

Patent_Absurdity_HQ_768kbit.ogv. Patent absurdity explained in a video Related articles by Zemanta Mailing Out Patent Absurdity (feld.com) Venture Capitalists Lobby Against Software Patents (yro.slashdot.org) FDL Movie Night: Patent Absurdity – How Software Patents Broke the System (firedoglake.com)

June 8, 2010 – 9:51 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Innovator/Pirates, Open Source v. Proprietary, Patent | Comments (0)

Web Open Font Format backed by Mozilla, type foundries – Ars Technica

Image via Wikipedia Ultimately, all this work will enable websites to take on the expressiveness of print, and extend it further with CSS animations. The benefit of supporting @font-face with WOFF fonts instead of converting type into images or Flash is that text will remain accessible. With support already coming in the next version of …

November 3, 2009 – 6:40 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Open Source v. Proprietary | Comments (0)

In The New York Times Magazine: Quirky.com

In The New York Times Magazine: Quirky.com. Quirky.com lets inventors put out an idea. The “drawing board” is crowd sourced. Anyone can comment on ideas. For $99 you can submit an idea which is then honed through iterations. When the production deals are worked out with manufacturers and suppliers, the idea goes “public” and it …

September 11, 2009 – 8:03 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Examples, New business models, Open Source v. Proprietary | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Rights Managed vs. Royalty Free: Understanding Stock Footage Licenses, Jay Holben

Rights Managed vs. Royalty Free: Understanding Stock Footage Licenses, Jay Holben. Rights, royalties, and creative commons.

September 2, 2009 – 8:46 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Open Source v. Proprietary | Comments (0)

The Pirate Bay Taken Offline By Swedish Authorities Updated | TorrentFreak

Image by biverson via Flickr The Pirate Bay Taken Offline By Swedish Authorities Updated | TorrentFreak.

August 25, 2009 – 9:26 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Innovator/Pirates, Open Source v. Proprietary | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

BBC NEWS | Technology | Web tool oversees Afghan election

The system relies on two established open-source technologies to gather the election reports. The text messages are collected via a free-platform known as FrontlineSMS, developed by UK programmer Ken Banks. The system was originally developed for conservationists to keep in touch with communities in national parks in South Africa and allows users to send messages …

August 21, 2009 – 8:25 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Individuated Media, Open Source v. Proprietary | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Who writes Linux: Big Business – Computerworld Blogs

To be exact, while 18.2% of Linux is written by people who aren’t working for a company, and 7.6% is created by programmers who don’t give a company affiliation, everything else is written by someone who’s getting paid to create Linux. From top to bottom, of the companies that have contributed more than 1% of …

August 21, 2009 – 8:18 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Open Source v. Proprietary, Trends | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Edge: ECONOMICS IS NOT NATURAL SCIENCE By Douglas Rushkoff

These are passages I want to cite from the full work by Rushkoff. the genuinely relevant question: whether the economic model, the game rules set in place half a millennium ago by kings with armies, can continue to hold back the genuine market activity of people enabled by computers. The decentralizing bias of new media …

August 14, 2009 – 5:05 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Economic forces, Innovator/Pirates, New business models, Open Source v. Proprietary | Comments (0)

RSS to PDF Newspaper | fivefilters.org

RSS to PDF Newspaper | fivefilters.org. About This is a free software project to help people create printable PDFs from content found on the web. It is a free alternative to HP’s Tabbloid service. It is being developed as part of the Five Filters project to promote alternative, non-corporate media.

August 10, 2009 – 5:26 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Examples, Open Source v. Proprietary | Tagged , | Comments (0)