Letter to the EC on the Oracle/Sun Takeover
Dear Commissioner Kroes, Last week, former MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos wrote you a letter urging approval of Oracle’s takeover of Sun Microsystems1, asserting that Oracle’s ownership of MySQL (as part of the Sun acquisition) will increase competition in the market. As a long-time MySQL user, a former MySQL AB staff member2 and a participant in [...]
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eLiberatica 2009
As I write this, my friend (and eLiberatica chair) Lucian is packing up to fly to Bucharest for this year’s instance of the eLiberatica Electronic Frontier/Free Software/Open Source conference. Sadly, I won’t be participating this year – a commitment to less travel and a new venture make doubly sure that I’m staying home. Despite the [...]
Free Culture vs. Fear Culture vs. Fee Culture
Last week, my good colleague Gerv gently took me to task about requiring that videos submitted to the Mozilla Net Effects video program be licensed under the Creative Common NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (instead of an actual Free Culture licensed like Creative Common ShareAlike license or Creative Common Attribution license) . I thought about this for a [...]
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Testing the Mozilla Net Effects Program
Last week, I wrote about an experimental video program that I am coordinating for Mozilla. I’ve now posted a more complete overview of the program, along with a draft guide for the program testers and an early FAQ on the program. Helping us in our early stages are the following good and brave souls: Alina [...]
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What Does the Net Mean to You?
Mozilla, the global community behind the Firefox web browser, has an idea that we need your help with. We want you to help make openness, participation and distributed decision-making common experiences in Internet life. To do this, millions of people around the world must understand, embrace and share these values. You, me, our families, our [...]
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A Long, Strange Road Trip
« Post 3 | This is the 4th post in my MoFo Futures 2009 blog series “When I was a child, my mother lectured me on the evils of ‘gossip.’ She held a feather pillow and said, ‘If I tear this open, the feathers will fly to the four winds, and I could never get [...]
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Getting a Job with Your Open Source Experience
Gerv, Frank, Mark and I have been discussing ideas around how people can turn open source experience into an asset for their resume. We’ve got some of our own ideas, but we want yours as well. Please blog, comment, email or ‘dent any one of us, or catch up with Gerv and Mark at FOSDEM. [...]
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Tell Me How The Spark Caught Flame
I want you to tell me the story of how you got started with the Net. Tell me how your passion was sparked and why it keeps coming to full flame. Tell me why the Net matters to you, even after all of the long days, short nights and wrecked weekends. I’ve been writing my [...]
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Hitchhiking the Information Superhighway
« Post 2 | This is the 3rd post in my MoFo Futures 2009 blog series | Post 4 » “As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I like beginnings. This is a constant. In primary school, I tried to re-invent arithmetic. My [...]
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Back to the Beginning
« Post 1 | This is the 2nd post in my MoFo Futures 2009 blog series. | Post 3 » “When a job went wrong, you went back to the beginning. And this is where we got the job. So it’s the beginning, and I’m staying till Vizzini comes.” — Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride [...]
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