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Leaving the GPL Behind 543

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 11 2009, @11:03PM
from the one-license-to-rule-them-all dept.

olddotter points out a story up at Yahoo Tech on companies' decisions to distance themselves from the GPL. "Before deciding to pull away from GPL, Haynie says Appcelerator surveyed some two dozen software vendors working within the same general market space. To his surprise, Haynie saw that only one was using a GPL variant. 'Everybody else, hands down, was MIT, Apache, or New BSD,' he says. 'The proponents of GPL like to tell people that the world only needs one open source license, and I think that's actually, frankly, just a flat-out dumb position,' says Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, one of the many organizations now offering an open source license with more generous commercial terms than GPL."

The Pirates Will Always Win, Says UK ISP 241

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday June 06 2009, @07:16AM
from the except-in-pittsburgh dept.

TheEvilOverlord writes "The head of UK ISP TalkTalk, Charles Dunstone, has made the comment ahead of the communications minister's Digital Britain report that illegal downloading cannot be stopped. He said 'If you try speed humps or disconnections for peer-to-peer, people will simply either disguise their traffic or share the content another way. It is a game of Tom and Jerry and you will never catch the mouse. The mouse always wins in this battle and we need to be careful that politicians do not get talked into putting legislation in place that, in the end, ends up looking stupid.' Instead he advocates allowing users 'to get content easily and cheaply.'"

Wikileaks pages banned in Australia-> 1

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cpudney

on Monday March 16 2009, @11:10PM

cpudney writes "The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has added several Wikileaks pages to its controversial blacklist. The blacklisted pages contain Denmark's list of banned websites. Simply linking to addresses in ACMA's blacklist attracts an $11,000 per-day fine as the hosts of the popular Australian broadband forum, Whirlpool, discovered last week when they published a forum post that linked to an anti-abortion web-site recently added to ACMA's blacklist. The blacklist is secret, immune to FOI requests and forms the basis of the Australian government's proposed mandatory ISP-level Internet censorship legislation. Wikileaks' response to notification of the blacklisting states: "The first rule of censorship is that you cannot talk about censorship.""
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Vote-a-matic for Aussie General Election-> 0

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cpudney

on Thursday November 22 2007, @09:42AM

cpudney writes "Voting is compulsory for all Australians in this weekend's Federal Election. Furthermore, Australia uses the preferential voting system in which voters must number, in order of preference, every box on their ballot paper for their vote to be counted. This is in spite of many of the candidates (and their policies) being unknown to the majority of the Australian electorate. This election, the Internet comes to the aid of bewildered voter with the HowShouldIVote web-site. Voters complete a short survey, their answers are matched against candidates' policy positions and the degree of correlation used to generate a personalised How to Vote guide."
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