OpenLife

If I did not already have 3 different iPods, this Bachpod would surely find its way into my shopping cart.

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Min hustru Jeanne driver Admiral Gjeddes Gaard, hvor vi også bor med familien. Som led heri holder hun en to-tre gang om året, hvad vi kalder “kulturaftener”. Her kommer folk og synger, spiller, fortæller og andet “kulturelt”.

I sidste uge havde vi besøg af min gamle ven Per Helge Sørensen, som ud over at være en talentfuld forfatter med flere romaner bag sig nu også fortæller historier live. Det blev en rigtig morsom aften. Se og hør selv!

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Her er et arrangement, som jeg gerne selv ville deltage i, hvis ikke lige jeg havde en anden aftale på samme tidspunkt. Min med-creative commonist Henrik Moltke sidder i debatpanellet.

Fildelingsdebat - 29. maj

Den Anden Natur og Turbulens.net inviterer til debat
Fildeling og ophavsret – en debat om fremtidens kulturmarked

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Rettighedsportalen, der lige er blevet lanceret, er et velkomment bidrag til den vigtige debat om immaterielle rettigheder i et moderne samfund, hvor al information er digitaliseret og muligt tilgængeligt online.

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This is so incredibly funny!

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Here’s a very informative video that seeks to explain what ccLearn is all about

ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons which is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational resources (OER). Our mission is to minimize barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials — legal barriers, technical barriers, and social barriers.

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In the neverending, but still relevant discussion, about the asp loophole in the GPL, the most recent example from the loophole-will-kill-open-source camp is the pervasive use of open source software in cloud computing.

The company the modifies open source software released under the GPL ii not considered to be distributing (GPL v. 2) or conveying (GPL v. 3) when it run the modified software as part of collaborative cloud computing. Therefore, the company does not have to contribute the modified software back to the community pursuant to the copyleft clause of the GPL.

My personal take on the challenge of securing that open source software covered by the GPL continues to flourish despite the asp loophole is pragmatic as the view expressed by Gordon Haff expresses in Do we need to protect open source from the cloud?.

So far, open source seems to have survived the asp and the web-service challenge without any change to the GPL with respect to the asp loophole. And more fundamentally, the market for oss licenses should take adequately care of any inefficiencies here. If open source needs to close the loophole to continue to succeed then surely devlopers and project owner will abandon the GPL for licenses such as the Affero General Public License.

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Vilhelm sharing some insight with the rest of us: Es gibt keinen erfolg ohne Frauen, citation by Kurt Tucholsky, German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer.

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I will be speaking Wednesday June 4th 2008 at the FOSS Aalborg - Free & Open Source Software Conference on:

Martin von Haller Grønbæk - Legal aspects of reverse engineering
When are you allowed to reverse engineer a protocol, a piece of software or hardware, and how may you use the obtained knowledge? Martin tries to clarify the aspects of reverse engineering from a legal point of view.

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During one of my last vacations in Tuscany I took a picture of my favorite pizza - the nepoletana - and posted it on my Flickr account. The other week the nice people at San Pellegrino ask me, if they could use my photo at their new web-site at http://www.sanpellegrino.com/. Of course, the could. And the work of the great photographer is now online.

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