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Merchandising = memorabilia 10 de Setiembre de 2009 10:06 http://www.abc.com.py/espectaculos/blur-radiohead-y-pink-floyd-a-favor-de-descargas-ilegales-19362.html Por Antonella Brignardello Las bandas británicas Blur, Radiohead y Pink Floyd sumaron fuerzas para exigirle al gobierno que retroceda en sus planes para penalizar a aquellas personas que realizan descargas ilegales de canciones y videos por Internet. "

Merchandising = memorabilia 10 de Setiembre de 2009 10:06 http://www.abc.com.py/espectaculos/blur-radiohead-y-pink-floyd-a-favor-de-descargas-ilegales-19362.html Por Antonella Brignardello Las bandas británicas Blur, Radiohead y Pink Floyd sumaron fuerzas para exigirle al gobierno que retroceda en sus planes para penalizar a aquellas personas que realizan descargas ilegales de canciones y videos por Internet. "

"Texto de Elon Musk de hoy, 12 de junio de 2014, para anunciar la renuncia de Tesla Motors a todas sus patentes. Sin duda, toda una declaración de principios por parte de la compañía, a favor del movimiento Open Source y en contra de las patentes. "Ayer había una pared de patentes de Tesla en la recepción de nuestras oficinas centrales en Palo Alto. Ya no va a estar. Han sido eliminadas, en el espíritu del movimiento Open Source, por el progreso de la tecnología de los vehículos eléctricos."

"In 2011 it appeared that Grooveshark would be able to claim safe harbor protections on pre-1972 recordings after all when a court ruled in its favor. However, in April 2013 a panel reversed the decision." [# ! All The Music issue is fixed now. # ;) (# ! as if there weren't better thing to to... to spend the money in...)] [# ! how is that a panel reverses decisions two years after ... ?]

"In 2011 it appeared that Grooveshark would be able to claim safe harbor protections on pre-1972 recordings after all when a court ruled in its favor. However, in April 2013 a panel reversed the decision." [# ! how is that a panel reverses decisions two years after ... ?]

[I want to start 2011 in a renewed spirit of generosity and sharing, so here are the complete PDFs of my last 3 books, for free; provided under a Creative Commons,non-commercial, share-alike, attribution license (see below). If you still want to buy the dead-tree versions of these books (or donate something for the free PDFs - yes, that's an option, too;), you can visit my Lulu Store, or go to Amazon.com, or check out my 'Paying for Gerd' page. You can also return the favor by blogging or tweeting of Facebook-liking my stuff. Thanks, and enjoy, and have a great 2011. Update: my free videos (50+ keynotes and presentations) are here, the iTunes podcast feed is here (just subscribe to download all videos to your iPod / iPad / iPhone, or computers), and my free slideshows (90+) are here, on Slideshare :)]

"The open source license you choose for your project, or for the projects you choose to contribute to, can have significant effects on how what you contribute is used. One question that has garnered quite a bit of interest recently is the fall in popularity of copyleft licenses in favor of permissive licenses. An article last year looked at the issue of large number of projects on GitHub that have no explicit license and posited the question about whether we live in a 'post open source software' world, where seemingly open source software has no license. After some time, GitHub agreed that licensing is important and worked to improve the situation with a license chooser."

"The Free Software Pact is a simple document with which candidates can inform the voting public that they favor the development and use of Free Software, and will protect it from possible threatening EU legislation. The Free Software Pact is also a tool for citizens who value Free Software to educate candidates about the importance of Free Software and why they should, if elected, protect the European Free Software community."

"Javier de la Cueva Abogado, experto en propiedad intelectual, profesor en el Máster CCCD Primer tiro en el pie: cómo no pagarle el canon Como es ampliamente conocido, una de las sorpresas de la reforma de la Ley de propiedad intelectual es la creación de un canon que tendrían que pagar los agregadores de noticias en internet en favor de los medios de comunicación."

" Ayer la Gran Coalición lograba la aprobación del informe sobre el TTIP en la Eurocámara, con el voto conjunto de, por ejemplo, el PSOE y el PP españoles. Ayer, lamentablemente y como señalan desde ATTAC, se dio un paso más para conferir "privilegios a los inversionistas y grandes transnacionales extranjeras frente a las políticas y medidas de protección ambiental, hacia las y los trabajadores y las y los consumidores que los gobiernos de los países, desde decisiones soberanas y democráticas, quieran poner en práctica"."

"This story on Adobe Flash was supposed to turn out a bit differently. The idea was to talk with some of the biggest websites still using Adobe's browser plugin, which has fallen out of favor within tech circles for its constant security issues and thirst for system resources. Maybe they could explain why Flash is still necessary, offering a counterpoint to the resounding calls to end its existence."

" Andy on August 19, 2015 C: 15 Breaking Rightscorp's efforts to unmask file-sharers using the DMCA has crashed and burned. After a federal judge ruled in favor of ISP Birch Communications and quashed the anti-piracy firm's subpoena, Rightscorp appealed the decision. Now the company has backed down, handing the ISP and privacy a big win."

"Despite the opposition of the US public and lawmakers to NSA surveillance, the courts keep handing the Obama administration the license to snoop. A US appeals court just threw out a 2013 verdict against the NSA, to White House approval. "

# ! thank You, Paul, for the observation. anyway, what it seems is that Citizens worldwide are going to be spied... judges aside, and -I'm afraid- not always with 'security issues' in the Agency's mind...

I agree, Gonzalo. Most of the "terrorist" groups the U.S. claims to be concerned with were in fact created by the U.S. Terrorism is simply the easiest means for the government to defend these surveillance programs. But the disclosures that the NSA spies for other purposes just doesn't get the coverage in mainstream media that might otherwise force changes. It's the Politics of Fear.

"from the too-bad dept Via Joe Mullin, we learn the rather unfortunate news that, when asked about Paul Allen's decision to sue lots of big tech companies over questionable patents, Wozniak comes out in favor of "patent trolls" and patent holders suing companies who actually innovate. "

everything we do here at Mozilla is, for the most part, a contribution to the Web platform. I blogged previously about the low esteem I reserve for arguments that favor proprietary platforms (which typically pit rapid proprietary innovation against dawdling Web Platform standardization cycles), but even in that upbeat blog post, I acknowledge that the standards process leaves much room for improvement.

Maybe the EU can right the marketplace and restore competition by identifying all proprietary formats, protocols and interfaces used by Microsoft in an anti-competitive way; then issue a directive to either replace these locks with open standard alternatives, or pay a monthly anti-competitive reimbursement penalty until such time as the end user effectively replaces these systems. This approach is similar to the "WiNE solution" put forward to Judge Jackson as part of the USA anti-trust remedy. Judge Jackson favored a break up of Microsoft into two divisions; Operating systems and other businesses. Few believed this was enforceable, with many citing the infamous "Chinese Wall" claims made by Chairman Bill

the Belgian Federal Public Service (FPS) Economy which considered the use of OpenOffice.org, but eventually decided not to adopt OpenOffice.org as their primary office suite. This decision was to a large degree influenced by the fact that a large number of users within the FPS Economy perform data-intensive tasks such as statistical data analysis and reporting on a daily basis. Notwithstanding the fact that several reasons were actually in favor of the migration, we have identified several barriers that may discourage the use of OpenOffice.org in similar environments.

Separately, Microsoft and Apple have announced that both company's browsers will boycott VP8 in favor of H264, which is encumbered by more than a thousand patents.. But if VP8 becomes ubiquitous on the Web, that's a hard position to maintain.  

"The idea of buying an enterprise application from a startup company might sound like anathema to a CIO. But Chris Laping, CIO of restaurant chain Red Robin, based in Greenwood Village, Colo., disagrees. He believes we're in the middle of a significant shift that favors startups -- moving from huge applications with extensive features to task-based activities, inspired by the apps running on mobile devices. Featured Resource Presented by Scribe Software 10 Best Practices for Integrating Data Data integration is often underestimated and poorly implemented, taking time and resources. Yet it Learn More Mirco Mueller concurs. He is an IT architect for St. Gallen, Switzerland-based Helvetia Swiss Life Insurance Co., which -- having been founded in 1858 -- is about as far from a startup as possible. He recently chose a SaaS tool from an unnamed startup over what he calls "a much more powerful but much more complex alternative. Its list of features is shorter than the feature list of the big companies, but in terms of agility, flexibility, ease of use and adjustable business model, it beat" all of its competitors. The biggest advantage of startups, in Mueller's opinion? "They have no technical historical burden, and they don't care about many technical dependencies. They deliver easy-to-use technology with relatively simple but powerful integration options." There's certainly no lack of applications available from new players. At a recent conference focusing on innovation, Microsoft Ventures principal Daniel Sumner noted that every month for the last 88 months, there's been a $1 billion valuation for one startup or another. That's seven years and counting. But as Silicon Valley skeptics like to point out, those are the ones you hear about. For every successful startup, there are at least three that fail, according to 2012 research by Harvard Business School professor Shikhar Ghosh. So why, then, would CIOs in their right mind take the risk of buying enterprise applic

"No hay vuelta atrás. La reforma de la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual (LPI) española acaba de aprobarse en el Pleno del Congreso de los Diputados por 172 votos a favor (solo los del Partido Popular), 144 en contra y 3 abstenciones. Era el último paso que necesitaba para entrar en vigor el próximo 1 de enero de 2015. La nueva Ley ha levantado una fuerte polémica porque, básicamente, intenta regular y controlar Internet en beneficio de unos pocos"

[... cable companies are strong in Congress. Cable giants have been lobbying Congress for years. Now they're asking for big favors. We have to stop them. Find out if your leaders work for you, or your cable company. ...]

El grupo de expertos de la ONU encargado de analizar la denuncia por "detención ilegal" presentada por el fundador de Wikileaks, Julian Assange, ha fallado a su favor, según ha adelantado la cadena de televisión británica BBC. El grupo de trabajo de la ONU para las detenciones arbitrarias, constituido por seis expertos internacionales, tiene previsto exponer el viernes los resultados de su investigación sobre el caso Assange, que impugnó las iniciativas de Suecia y Reino Unido para detenerle y extraditarle.