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During the mid-1980s, a Yugoslavian radio show broadcast computer software live so that listeners could record games and electronic journals onto cassettes.
Op-ed: Big US companies could use patent licensing to throttle EU startups.
“More contract disclosure will not necessarily result in greater understanding of the economic implications of fiscal terms. The terms only become meaningful when their interactions are understood alongside relevant national tax laws and regulations. So to make real sense of the economic implications, the fiscal terms must be considered under varying scenarios of production, price …
The SocialCapital plugin is a key piece for the promotion of GNU social as an operating system for cities.
Open supply chains are a recurring theme here on the P2P Foundation blog, whether it’s a ‘FairMouse‘, the (very popular) Fairphone, or Sourcemap, (website here) there have been various efforts to make supply chains transparent, whether from the vendors themselves or from third parties. I am working with the (P2PF-endorsed) FairCoop project on a new …
Toward a Collaborative Technology Alliance: Because we’re all unique, we bring different gifts, talents, and approaches to this shared intention.
We used to share common resources with our communities. Now sharing is the word we use for paying a tech start-up to connect us with people to transact with
“People centered” means that control of infrastructure, access, distribution, resources, and co-governance are now on the scale of the individual person. When an individual person with this empowerment reaches their individual carrying capacity to operate, they will tend to reach out to others who are operating like them, and a connection-based network will emerge. Economic development here targets individuals operating as self-employed independents who network together. Independents, small businesses, community groups, working together, with government, higher education, and larger business are the new economic driver. The more control people have an on individual scale of infrastructure, access, distribution, resources, and governance, *and* the more connectivity there is between those people, the that more growth happens in “people centered economic development”. When control of infrastructure, access, distribution, resources, and co-governance are now on the scale of the individual person, a new way of coopertive co-managing of existing resources, and surpluses of production tends to emerge. That new way of co-managing is known as “Resource Sharing”."
The copyfarleft licensing model is a concrete proposal related to the commercial usages debate. It suggests one way to improve on “non-commercial clauses”, arguably making them more effective in reducing negative social impacts, such as wage labour being exploited in building the commons. We believe it is an interesting contribution that mostly avoids the problems mentioned above, but also has its potential drawbacks. This position paper comments on them (as well as on some merits of this model), and proposes an alternative or complementary model that attempts to solve some of those drawbacks.”
The British Cabinet Office has formally required compliance with the Open Document Format (ODF) in any software to be purchased in the future across all government bodies. Compliance with OOXML, the competing document format championed by Microsoft, is neither required nor relevant.
“The natural successor to the Industrial and Internet Revolutions, the Industrial Internet will completely transform the way that we live and work. Intelligent machines enable optimization, leading to better performance, lower costs and higher reliability. Check the scenarios to learn more about how the Industrial Internet can be applied in different industries. The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) manages the collaborative efforts of industry, academia, and government to accelerate growth of the Industrial Internet. This not-for-profit Consortium provides the forum to catalyze, coordinate, and manage the collaborative program..”
“The Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) is a proposed data standard for exchanging designs within the synthetic biology community. SBOL represents synthetic biology designs in a community-adopted, formalized format for exchange between software tools, research groups, and commercial service providers. The re-use of previously validated designs is critical to the evolution of synthetic biology from a research discipline to an engineering practice. As a community-driven standard, SBOL adapts as synthetic biology evolves, providing specific capabilities for different aspects of the synthetic biology workflow. The SBOL Developers Group has implemented SBOL 1.1 as an XML/RDF serialization and provides software libraries and specification documentation to help developers implement SBOL in their own software. This paper also reports on early successes, including a demonstration of the utility of SBOL for information exchange between three different tools from three academic sites.”
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Video exploring the topic of Open Source Circular Economy
When governments collect data we call it 'surveillance', but when companies do the same, we mistakenly call it 'user services.
The Envienta project has recently come to my attention – it is a ‘connect the dots’ type initiative which aims to collect various forms of open source technology to make up an entire lifestyle based on low-cost modular solutions and open knowledge. They are clearly inspired by Jeremy Rifkin’s ‘Zero Marginal Cost Society‘ hypothesis, and …
Open supply chains are a recurring theme here on the P2P Foundation blog, whether it’s a ‘FairMouse‘, the (very popular) Fairphone, or Sourcemap, (website here) there have been various efforts to make supply chains transparent, whether from the vendors themselves or from third parties. I am working with the (P2PF-endorsed) FairCoop project on a new …
In his 1973 bestseller Small Is Beautiful, the British economist E.F. Schumacher outlined a concept that would come to be known as “appropriate technology.” This meant, in essence, adopting technologies that actually suit the needs they’re meant to address and the contexts in which they’re meant to operate. He was worried chiefly about technological overkill in international development, but it’s an idea that resonates elsewhere. In sum: Use the tool that fits the need.
The idea of POC21 is to invent inexpensive, modular household devices, farm tools and energy systems that can be replicated cheaply and shared by anyone.
Republished from Christian Siefkes: (the original article, also available in German contains an appendix and many links; this article, though not a new one, is still being circulated and recommended; updated insights would be very welcome) “It’s probably safe to say that the copyleft principle has been essential for the success of free software. Copyleft …
I used this presentation slide during the "Half Day Seminar on Open Standards" which was organized by Open Knowledge Nepal on the occasion of Document Freedom …
“The ID3 software, called Open Mustard Seed, wouldn’t just contain your name, home address, birthday, government tracking numbers, etc. It would also contain “biometric” and “behavioral” trackers, and all this data would be fused with every online transaction you ever used it for.
Open standards have driven the networking market since the earliest days of the Internet. While the use of open source for networking is a more recent phenomenon, it is no less important. A major industry transition to open source for software-defined networking (SDN) is under way, and users and vendors stand to benefit. Some expectations, however, may need to change.
On Tuesday the news that the UK Government had decided to use ODF as its official and default file format started to spread. The full announcement with technical details may be found here; the Document Foundation published its press release on Thursday morning there.
Reports emerged this week of a problem for Apple users opening presentation filescreated in Keynote. The latest update of Keynote -- in fact, all of iWork '13 -- won't open files created with versions before iWork '09, instead prompting users to find a copy of iWork '09 and open the file with that.
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