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Archive | January, 2003
Mickey Mouse Speaks
Mickey Mouse Speaks – an interview with the mouse on the Supreme Court decision to not Free The Mouse.
Post dated 2003-01-18 08:58:02
Judge orders Network Associates to revamp license agreement. The decision means the software developer can’t stop users from publishing product reviews or benchmark tests without the company’s permission. [Computerworld News] I wonder if this same ruling can be extended to Oracle and Microsoft and their prohibitions on publishing benchmarks…
Post dated 2003-01-17 15:57:20
Bill Moyers covers the copyright on PBS tonight. [Scripting News]
Post dated 2003-01-17 14:33:46
Bruce Perens is on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” with Ira Flatow. Tune in if you get the chance.
Post dated 2003-01-17 11:33:57
What it isn’t.
Derek Miller shows how much things have remained the same (as they were 5 years ago) in the presentations game.
[The Doc Searls Weblog] Great points in both articles. Doc: “Presentations are as much about slides as poetry is about handwriting.”
Post dated 2003-01-16 13:45:31
SJ Mercury: Copyright ruling is a ripoff of consumers. Dan Gillmor. Sometimes I worry that people are oblivious to anything but immediate gratification. But I also sense that the public is beginning to grasp the scale of corruption that has led to incessant copyright extensions — and will see the risks in even more theft from what should belong to all of us. [Tomalak’s Realm]
Post dated 2003-01-16 08:43:52
Judge gives Microsoft 120 days to ship Java. “When Microsoft has the will to achieve, the achievement is great, and when it has the will to obstruct, the obstruction is complete,” says Judge. [InfoWorld: Top News] The best quote: “We’re not trying to be obstructionist, but it’s not in anyone’s interest for us to install some code in our operating system that doesn’t work,” Holley said. Gee, that’s never stopped them before…
Post dated 2003-01-15 19:31:18
SUV Owners and Terrorism. “I’ve come to admire Arianna Huffington for her passionately progressive politics. Once a tunnel-visioned right-winger, she opened her eyes to…” [Dan Gillmor’s eJournal] Dan has a legitimate complaint that the SUV terrorist connection is a weak one, but I love the commercials! First, they are a satire on the miserable “Moral Equivalent of War” (MEOW) commercials, and second, a take-off on what the auto industry is trying to sell us. The commercials win, on a number of levels. They make us talk about them – any PR is good PR, right? They make us think why what they are telling us isn’t right. Thinking is good. And finally, they do deliver the message that SUVs are bad. I love them.
Post dated 2003-01-15 19:23:36
A little inspiration.[The Doc Searls Weblog] Thanks. Doc.