Free Software's Freeness Guarenteed by US Army Invasion of Iraq*?!

2003-09-07 Thread auskadi
In the light of the last post I made about Open Source and Denied Parties I thought this story and discussion on newsforge might be of some interest. They guy who originated this storm seemed to think that the US Army's actions in Iraq somehow made the world (or more properly the US) a safer p

Open Source and Denied Parties

2003-09-07 Thread auskadi
I just went to check out some buggy thing in my inability to open some attachments in my Mozilla mail that get sent to me from a mac ... I started here: http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.4 And I saw this with a nice bold yellow background: * This source code is subject to the U.S. Export

Earth Station 5 Declares War Against The Motion Picture Association of America

2003-08-31 Thread auskadi
Nettimers, I love the rhetoric here but need to play with it to see if it lives up to the job in practice. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=SVBIZINK2.story&STORY=/www/story/08-19-2003/0002003023&EDATE=TUE+Aug+19+2003,+06:14+AM Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: The voice of the valley

Dell & Shrink Wrap Licences!

2003-08-30 Thread auskadi
A friend from Panama just sent me this intersting little tale about someone's recent experience with shrink wrap licences with the question:"whats your law view on this: http://www.cypherpunks.ca/dell.html";. I have always had that uncertain feeling about the legality of these kinds of things - ho

The quiet war over open-sourceThe quiet war over open-source

2003-08-27 Thread auskadi
>From the Sara. commons - law list : Message: 3 Date: 31 Aug 2003 01:16:20 +0530 From: Sunil Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Commons-Law] WIPO + Open Source + Microsoft Lobbyists To: Commons Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain The quiet war ov

[Fwd: Re: [ox-en] Felix Stalder: Six Limitations to the Current Open Source Development Methodology]

2003-08-26 Thread auskadi
I am forwarding this message from the oekonux list Martin Original Message Subject:Re: [ox-en] Felix Stalder: Six Limitations to the Current Open Source Development Methodology Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:46:55 +0200 From: Stefan Merten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To:

Re: Six Limitations to the Current Open Source DevelopmentMethodology

2003-08-16 Thread auskadi
Thanks to Felix as always for his clear thoughts. I haven't had time to read and respond carefully but I just wanted to throw into the mix two preliminary thoughts. Like when I read Lessig (as I have said before), but thankfully to a lesser extent, when I read Benkler I feel something is missing

Mas(s) Googleing

2003-08-01 Thread auskadi
This might be a really dumb question Is there an "open" search engine or a non corporate search engine in existence other than the dmoz project (I think that is what it is called). Is there one I can "trust"? Like many I use google for my searching. I have just read an article of the yahoo p

Re: PMCs or What Iraq and Liberia Have in Common AND Colombia Timor Cambodia and EVEN the internet

2003-07-30 Thread auskadi
The PMC's have had a big role supporting US involvement in UN Peacekeeping Missions for some time. For example Dyncorp on of the leaders in the field had a large presence in East Timor during the period of the UN administration. Soenke's posting also reminded me of the merging ot the tech compan

Re: opencontent.org dissolves and stalls its licenses

2003-07-02 Thread auskadi
Florian, Francis, Tim, Heiko and everyone else When I first read this series of postings the lawyer (Heiko read "common law lawyer") in me asked himself why does someone have to maintain a licence?. All that is needed is that you use it. For this it just needs to be available. Simply because someo

Re: Users are the Real Media Masters?

2003-06-19 Thread auskadi
Geert and Paul I have been doing a bit of reading on this stuff lately ... here are some refernces...if you cant access some and want them I can download them and email them to you (they may not be in the commons) .. I have more but these seem the most relevant to Paul's posting. Martin Keith Ao

Re: Linux strikes back...

2003-06-18 Thread auskadi
be great... please post the draft for discussion... I think this could be a great approach for a matter of sensible topics and for NGOs and interest groups, when a community is in danger of being abolished due to other interests, them being mainly economic or politic... > >Cheers, > >g >

Re: Linux strikes back...

2003-06-17 Thread auskadi
For the non paralysed another way of pursuing this may e for linux users to claim that the copyright in linux is held by the authors as trustees for the general linux community. That way non linux authors who are linux users could also threaten and or commence legal actions seeking remedies fo