14 month ago
Anil : A Red Flag Before The White Flag - Major labels function with the assumption that 90 percent of artists they sign are going to fail — that should have been a red flag for everybody. I mean that’s a bizarre business model in any arena. But particularly in the cultural arena, th
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deusx : the man strikes again, youtube wars » amanda fucking palmer » blog - "did i mention that being on a major label is starting to seem like…..not such a grand idea?"
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Anil : A Red Flag Before The White Flag - Major labels function with the assumption that 90 percent of artists they sign are going to fail — that should have been a red flag for everybody. I mean that’s a bizarre business model in any arena. But particularly in the cultural arena, th
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wearehugh : Enormously important news from the Free Software Foundation (Lessig Blog) - gfdl gets eated
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wearehugh : Android is now available as open source (Android Open Source Project) - finally
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deusx : A VMware mistake may shutdown thousands of virtual infrastructures | virtualization.info - "This morning the VMware’s customers that upgraded their virtual data centers with the new Infrastructure 3.5 Update 2 (build 103908) had an awful surprise: any virtual machine that is turned off cannot be powered on again, and any attempt to execu
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20 month ago
wearehugh : adamw’s very own blog » Blog Archive » Open letter to the developers of TrueCrypt - "who the hell thought such a stupid license was necessary? Why are you so special?"
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wearehugh : The future of web font embedding | clagnut/blog - some interesting ideas for new/additional business models once 3 major browsers support embedded fonts
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wearehugh : John Gruber doesn’t understand freedom // plasmasturm.org
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wearehugh : Parsing the “open” in Facebook’s “fbOpen” platform | FactoryCity
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23 month ago
deusx : Mu License - "If you are asking what license this software is released under, you are asking the wrong question."
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23 month ago
wearehugh : Slashdot | Sun to Fully Open Source Java - i swear to god, i'm going to play "duke nukem forever" before i install "fully open source java"
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23 month ago
wearehugh : Linux.com :: The iPhone SDK and free software: not a match
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23 month ago
wearehugh : Slashdot | iPhone SDK and Free Software Don't Match
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24 month ago
wearehugh : Luis Villa’s Blog / brief “CC-licensed specification” rant - i've never understood this either. first example i saw was microformats specs, but perhaps there were earlier examples. now it's spreading like a cancer.
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24 month ago
wearehugh : nanocr.eu » Blog Archive » Rogue developers - "dvd jon" accuses rogue amoeba of gpl violations
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25 month ago
wearehugh : reddit.com: Can GPL iPhone apps exist? - a few interesting comments here as well
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wearehugh : Luis Villa’s Blog / shaver asks some interesting questions about Microsoft and legal liability - basically, microsoft is either full of shit or has insanely incompetent lawyers. dunno about you, but i'm leaning towards "full of shit."
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wearehugh : Groklaw - Promises, Promises from Microsoft. Again. - "Here for your amusement are an additional ten previous Microsoft statements promising interoperability"
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wearehugh : robilad: The only good ones are dead ones - "yet another empty promise that covers no open source developers at all"
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28 month ago
Linkorama : Some important news from Wikipedia - As Jimmy announces, the Wikimedia Foundation Board has agreed with a proposal made by the Free Software Foundation that will permit Wikipedia (and other such wikis) to relicense under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
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28 month ago
wearehugh : Affero General Public License Version 3
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29 month ago
wearehugh : Stefano's Linotype ~ Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun's IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME
Rod Begbie : Stefano's Linotype ~ Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun's IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME - Sadly, this is the most interesting and innovative thing I've read about "Android" so far -- that they're getting around Sun's "J2ME" trademark/patent/licensing beartrap by implementing their own VM. [via] #
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29 month ago
wearehugh : Re: Will the Android OS be 100% open source ? - Android Developers | Google Groups - I asked this question internally and was pointed to this specific post. "When the source code is released, it will include the entire system."
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