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Submission + - OS Library software under assault (stuff.co.nz)

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abesottedphoenix

on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @05:23PM

abesottedphoenix writes: "The rural Library responsible for the first Open Source Library catalogue is under attack from defence contractor PTFS. More than a decade after rolling out Koha (featured elsewhere in /. in NZ School Goes Open Source Amid Microsoft Mandate) they now find themselves in a battle to keep a generic Mori term within the public domain. The story is also covered at Radio NZ. http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/mnr/mnr-20111123-0725-horowhenua_library_astonished_us_firm_can_trademark_koha-048.mp3"

Comment Lemme Ask Lord Nemesis (Score 1) 154

by abesottedphoenix on Monday January 08, 2007 @04:10AM (#17505530) Attached to: Open Project to Develop Renewable Energy System

Lord Nemesis, how do we get this to work?

Where it is theoretically something that's feasible, I'd have to say that you'd have to scale things very, very small indeed. Of course, this is theoretically possible to me on the same level that it's theoretically possible to capture all of the hot air from a committee meeting. On the other hand, with emerging nanotech, they might be able to invent something that can easily power a small gadget. It still looks like it would be least effort to employ either wind or solar in the meantime, though.

Comment Interesting (Score 2, Insightful) 298

by TJ6581 on Friday April 15, 2005 @03:39PM (#12248037) Attached to: Study Shows China Tightens Internet Filtering

How ervasive and effective can a system be when you are paying people to review it. There are 3 problems that spring to mind.

1) Doesn't it defeat the purpose of hiding something when you pay thousands of people to read it?

2) How effective can any system that relies on human judgement be?

3) What's to stop a small dedicated group of people from letting a few "un-authorized" pages slip through the cracks.

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