OpenLife

IMHO, the best and most focused presentation at this inaugural version of the Open Source Business Conference Europe was the panel Risk that proprietary software vendors face in using open source with Larry Robins and Jason Wacha.

Among the key points:

Open source is viral, closed source is terminal

There has not been any relevant lawsuit - including SCO - regarding GPL in 15 years

Want to avoid litigation? Get out of proprietary software!

Also an interesting - and heated - discussion between Jason Wacha and the strong team of Microsoft lawyers in the audience. In his presentation Jason Wacha questioned Microsoft’s motives with respect to software patents. He implied that Microsoft might by using patents to defend themselves from competition from in particular Linux. This was - expectedly - heavily contested by the Microsoft people present.

On another note, it is interesting how Microsoft has a massive presence at all conferences where open source is discussed.

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During my stay in London to speak at OSBC-UK, Jeanne, Vilhelm, Jens and I visited my old pal Erik Ringmar whom I met during my stay at European University Institute back in 1991-93.

Erik is now a political science professor at London School of Economics but mowing to Taiwan shortly. He also has an much-visited weblog Forget the Footnotes.

Erik and wife Diane have 4 wonderful daughters. Saga at my far right is my goddaughter.

Is this a hoax?

business2blog: B2Day : Introducing the Flameron Laptop From Dell: ”

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I am spending 2 days at Forbes CEO Forum in Copenhagen courtesy of Morten Lund. I am not sure what to make of this event. It does not seem that any of the speakers are saying anything that I haven’t heard or that I couldn’t read or hear somewhere else. Maybe, the prime reason for being here is the networking opportunities, if you are trying to get close to CEOs of large companies.

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Computerworlds nye chefredaktør Mikael Lindhold stiller i sin leder 16. juni 2006 det meget relevante spørgsmål: “Er Danmark et Microsoft-protektorat, Fogh?“.

Spørgsmålet er yderst relevant. Hvordan hænger regeringens vision sammen med den næsegrus støtte til Microsoft, som Anders Fogh Rasmussen er eksponent for?

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I am spending this Friday in Vilnius working as part of the advisory board of Caselex with a group of good people to try to figure how best to collect, aggregate, add value to and bring to market on a European level a lot of information about national court decisions in 25 different languages. Challenging indeed. But a good example of how a European services would really be able to add value.

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Danish hackers launch Free Beer 3.0, with guarana: “Cory Doctorow:
The Danish free culture activists who created a free beer with an open-source recipe have released a new version of their free beer: Free Beer 3.0 with guarana.

Free Beer 3.0 has a new recipe, a new label, and a new Flickr Pool

Master brewer Birthe Skands describes 3.0 as a ‘traditional, top fermented beer with a very high drinkability factor - defined as the desire to drink another glass or bottle. With heavier beer from Belgium, for example, you’ll drink only one glass which you’ll indulge in. With FREE BEER you’ll want to drink another one - so it’s actually thirst quenching. We also wanted a nice color, and ended up with a beautiful, light amber’

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(Thanks, Henrik!)

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(Via Boing Boing.)

I had the great privilege 10 June 2006 to host at Admiral Gjeddes Gaard at lunch with Larry Lessig just before the official launch of Creative Commond DK.

More photos at http://www.23hq.com/mhg/album/770770.

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Here is my newborn son Jens Jakob von Haller Groenbaek who came into my world 27 May 2006 at 21:05 PM. Thank you, Jeanne!

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