Issues

All of the terribly anti-social things the RIAA has done have always been defended as being in the best interests of the artists. Seriously, it’s a great line and it’s one that stupid people will trot out when I am ranting about the Recording Industry’s appalling behavior. I usually respond by tearing a chunk of [...]

The UK commissioned a report that looks into the state of copyright protections and then makes a list of recommendations for the way forward for Copyrights in the UK. It has said that tougher penalties for Copyright infringement would be a good thing (lauded by the BPI) and that the 50 year copyright extension for [...]

After doing a hell of a lot of bad-mouthing of the OLPC, Microsoft have changed their tune. Now they are porting Windows to the OLPC. I think it demonstrates that Microsoft are shitting themselves over the potential success of the OLPC project. If it is successful, then MS get cut out of a massive market [...]

When I read that Microsoft were putting forward their ‘Open XML’ up for an industry standard I was really pleased. I have always vehemently hated the way that MS has used it’s document formats to mess with my life, so I was pleased that they were ‘giving away’ their ability to mess with the format. [...]

This reminds me of when I was a kid. Funny space ship game where the graphics are hand drawn sketches. And this this is a funny white board animation.

There’s this company called SCO that was used as a patsy company in the war against open source software, waged by all the bastard software companies (like Microsoft). A few years ago, SCO, egged on by it’s bully mates (like Microsoft), filed a billion dollar lawsuit against IBM for contributing it’s intellectual property to Linux. [...]