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Lessig blesses DRM
Oh. Dear. If you arrive for work today and discover a grisly pool of brain tissue and bone fragments where a colleague used to sit, we may have the explanation right here. For, n a move that risks causing Scanners-style head explosions across the land, Professor Lawrence Lessig has endorsed DRM. Not just any old…
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Flock founder flees
Soon all browsers would look like Flock, predicted Business Week. Included here for this quote, found on the internets. Wasn’t this the quintissential Web 2.0 business plan? Raise a bunch of capital in order to hire old people for pennies on the dollar. Use this vast, untapped resource in order to ‘develop’ a browser that…
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Nature journal cooked Wikipedia study
Nature magazine has some tough questions to answer after it let its Wikipedia fetish get the better of its responsibilities to reporting science. The Encyclopedia Britannica has published a devastating response to Nature‘s December comparison of Wikipedia and Britannica, and accuses the journal of misrepresenting its own evidence. Where the evidence didn’t fit, says Britannica,…
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The murky world of Mozilla and Google
When the Mozilla Foundation turns to the public for money, it happily assumes the mantle of a penniless public institution asking for charity. Over 10,000 FireFox fans drew deep into their own pockets to place an expensive two-page advertisement for the browser in the New York Times 15 months ago. But the Mozilla Foundation’s commercial…