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Submission + - Australia to sign ACTA tomorrow (zdnet.com.au)

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lukemartinez

on Thursday September 29, 2011 @10:55PM

lukemartinez writes: "Trade Minister Dr Craig Emerson is travelling to Tokyo today to sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in the hopes of stemming global piracy.

ACTA aimed to introduce a legal framework for 27 countries on copyright protection in an effort to curb the rampant piracy of goods ranging from music to medicine..."

Submission + - Australian users may have a case on windows 8 (zdnet.com.au)

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lukemartinez

on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @04:26AM

lukemartinez writes: "The Linux Australia community began petitioning the ACCC this week after Microsoft aired plans to mandate the enabling of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface's (UEFI) secure boot feature for devices bearing the "Designed for Windows 8" logo. This means that any software or hardware that is to run on the firmware will need to be signed by Microsoft or the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to be able to execute. This would make it impossible to install alternative operating systems like Linux..."

Submission + - Microsoft Windows 8 to require a locked computer (luke.asia)

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lukemartinez

on Thursday September 22, 2011 @07:37PM

lukemartinez writes: "Microsoft as part of their OEM system require all new computers shipping with windows 8 to use secure signing keys to prevent 'unauthorized software' from running on the computer. This will prevent all free software operating systems from running on the computers that come with OEM Windows 8 by default. This will be an incredible problem for Laptop Linux users and we should stand up."

Submission + - FCC Issues "Open Internet" (Net Neutrality) Rules (google.com)

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Lauren Weinstein

on Thursday September 22, 2011 @07:12PM

Lauren Weinstein writes: "FCC issues Final Rule on "Internet Freedom and Openness" ("Net Neutrality"): https://plus.google.com/114753028665775786510/posts/aeRBqQSjcMW"

Submission + - The IKEA Effect: Why We Love Things We Build (neoacademic.com)

Submitted by RichDiesal on Thursday September 22, 2011 @05:52PM

RichDiesal writes: The IKEA Effect refers to the tendency for people to value things they have created/built themselves more than if made by someone else – in fact, nearly as much as if an expert with much greater skill had created the same item. Is this the reason that open source software proponents are so “enthusiastic” about their products while the general market resists them – because those proponents had a hand in developing them?

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