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MS finally to bring Office to the Web, Windows smart phones - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...28idg-MS-finally-to-b.html microsoft office-web silverlight ria OOXML-XAML
shared by Gary Edwards on 05 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Gary Edwards on 05 Nov 08
     
    Last week, Microsoft reported that revenue from the Microsoft business division (MBD) grew 20% year over year to US$4.95 billion in the most recent quarter. That is more than Microsoft's client division, which makes Windows. Most of MBD's revenue comes from Office, though Microsoft doesn't break out an exact percentage. Windows has 1 billion users. Office has only 500 million. Consumers will be able to subscribe to Office Web and even get it at a discount price, provided they are willing to view Web ads. Business customers seeking "more manageability and control" will be able to buy subscriptions to Office Web similar to the subscription Microsoft offers for a bundle combining Web-based versions of Exchange and SharePoint. That costs $3 per user per month. Enterprises may also get Office Web through conventional volume licensing software contracts, which will allow them to either install Office on desktop and other client PCs, or have Microsoft host it on their server. Unlike non-Microsoft products (Google Docs - ZOHO - BuzzWord), Office Web will guarantee that the "viewing experience is fantastic" and that formatting and meta data from Office documents don't "get munged up,". Office Web will provide a superior "end-to-end solution" by letting users view and edit documents whenever they want to, including browsers such as Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari and Windows Mobile smart phones. The Office Web focus will be on business productivity according to Chris Capossela. The Office Web experience can be enhanced by Silverlight (Microsoft RiA).
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Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube - Free Software Foundation - 0 views

www.fsf.org/...oogle-free-on2-vp8-for-youtube Google FSF Flash DRM VP8 open codecs
shared by Paul Merrell on 20 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Paul Merrell on 20 Feb 10
     
    With your purchase of On2, you now own both the world's largest video site (YouTube) and all the patents behind a new high performance video codec -- VP8. Just think what you can achieve by releasing the VP8 codec under an irrevocable royalty-free license and pushing it out to users on YouTube? You can end the web's dependence on patent-encumbered video formats and proprietary software (Flash). This ability to offer a free format on YouTube, however, is only a tiny fraction of your real leverage. The real party starts when you begin to encourage users' browsers to support free formats. There are lots of ways to do this. Our favorite would be for YouTube to switch from Flash to free formats and HTML, offering users with obsolete browsers a plugin or a new browser (free software, of course). Apple has had the mettle to ditch Flash on the iPhone and the iPad -- albeit for suspect reasons and using abhorrent methods (DRM) -- and this has pushed web developers to make Flash-free alternatives of their pages. You could do the same with YouTube, for better reasons, and it would be a death-blow to Flash's dominance in web video. If you care about free software and the free web (a movement and medium to which you owe your success) you must take bold action to replace Flash with free standards and free formats. Patented video codecs have already done untold harm to the web and its users, and this will continue until we stop it. Because patent-encumbered formats were costly to incorporate into browsers, a bloated, ill-suited piece of proprietary software (Flash) became the de facto standard for online video. Until we move to free formats, the threat of patent lawsuits and licensing fees hangs over every software developer, video creator, hardware maker, web site and corporation -- including you. You can use your purchase of On2 merely as a bargaining chip to achieve your own private solution to the problem, but that's both a cop-out and a strategic mistake. Without making VP
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Music Royalty Collectors Accused of Copyfraud | TorrentFreak - 0 views

torrentfreak.com/rs-accused-of-copyfraud-111002 music royalty collectors copyright copyfraud
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  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 03 Oct 11
     
    *History Repeating. [German music royalty collecting agency GEMA has once again stepped up to enforce their strict copyright regime. But this time they picked the wrong target. The group mistakenly demanded money from the nonprofit organization Musikpiraten for publishing five Creative Commons licensed tracks. Musikpiraten is baffled by the false claim and is considering filing a complaint for copyfraud. ...]
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Ten Sites for Free and Legal Torrents - Online Video News - 1 views

gigaom.com/...es-for-free-and-legal-torrents free legal music torrents download Creative Commons
shared by Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 02 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 02 Jul 11
     
    Start a New Vision of The Music with Creative Commons Licenses
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Digital Law Online: Compilations, Collections, And Derivative Works - 2 views

digital-law-online.info/...treatise6.html compilation collection derivative work new copyright status
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  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 10 Jul 11
     
    Informing about how to license -for sharing- DJin' sessions...
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We're living in a post-open source world | Open source software - InfoWorld - 1 views

akamai.infoworld.com/...-post-open-source-world-246448 living post open source world
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  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 24 Jul 14
     
    "We're living in a post-open source world Increasingly, software isn't sold, it's used to power services offered over the Internet. So why contend with the complexities of open source licensing? By Matt Asay | InfoWorld Follow @infoworld"
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Ericsson Sues to Block Apple iPhone in U.S. Amid Patent Spat | Bloomberg BNA - 0 views

www.bna.com/icsson-sues-block-n17179923614 smartphone Apple Ericsson patent litigation
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  • The licensing battle between Apple Inc. and Ericsson AB is escalating.Ericsson, a pioneer in mobile phones that transformed itself into the world's largest maker of wireless networks, said Friday it's filing seven new lawsuits in a U.S. court and is asking the U.S. International Trade Commission to block Apple products from the U.S. market.Together, the complaints accuse Apple of infringing as many as 41 patents for some of the fundamental ways mobile devices communicate and for related technology such as user interfaces, battery saving and the operating system.
  • Apple had been paying royalties to Stockholm-based Ericsson before a license expired in mid-January. When talks over renewal failed, the companies sued each other, seeking court rulings on whether Ericsson's royalty demands on fundamental technology were fair and reasonable.
  • The new complaints being filed by Ericsson at the International Trade Commission in Washington take the dispute to another level and are designed to put pressure on Apple. The trade commission, whose job is to protect U.S. markets from unfair trade practices, moves more swiftly than district courts and has the power to block products from crossing the border.Apple's iPhone, iPad and other devices are made in Asia.
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Free Music Archive: The WIRED CD: Rip. Sample. Mash. Share. - 0 views

freemusicarchive.org/...WIRED_CD_Rip_Sample_Mash_Share free music archive wired rip sample mash share
shared by Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 14 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 14 Mar 15
     
    "This CD was distributed along with Wired Magazine's Nov 2004 issue. It is a collection of songs produced under Creative Commons, inspired by Creative Commons' remix website, ccMixter. "Rip, mix, burn. Swap till you drop. The music cops can't do a thing - it's 100 percent legal, licensed by the bands. The Wired CD, copyrighted for the 21st century." check out Wired Magazine's page for this release here, with a great article by Thomas Goetz. Also check it out on ccMixter here."
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Creative Commons to pass one billion licensed works | Opensource.com - 0 views

opensource.com/...state-commons creative commons pass billion licensed works opensource commons state of the art
shared by Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 29 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 29 Nov 14
     
    "At its heart, Creative Commons is a simple idea. It's the idea that when people share their creativity and knowledge with each other, amazing things can happen."
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 29 Nov 14
     
    "At its heart, Creative Commons is a simple idea. It's the idea that when people share their creativity and knowledge with each other, amazing things can happen."
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Open Content and Open Access | ifrOSS - 0 views

www.ifross.org/...open-content-and-open-access open content access open content open access
shared by Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 14 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 14 Apr 15
     
    "A few years ago ‚Open Content', the application of the license model for free software to other works was still far away but today it seems to have established itself. The term 'Open Content' is not always used consistently. "
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Introduction to OpenCalais | OpenCalais - 0 views

www.opencalais.com/...introduction-opencalais OpenCalais Semantic-Web
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  • Gary Edwards on 27 Mar 15
     
    "The free OpenCalais service and open API is the fastest way to tag the people, places, facts and events in your content.  It can help you improve your SEO, increase your reader engagement, create search-engine-friendly 'topic hubs' and streamline content operations - saving you time and money. OpenCalais is free to use in both commercial and non-commercial settings, but can only be used on public content (don't run your confidential or competitive company information through it!). OpenCalais does not keep a copy of your content, but it does keep a copy of the metadata it extracts there from. To repeat, OpenCalais is not a private service, and there is no secure, enterprise version that you can buy to operate behind a firewall. It is your responsibility to police the content that you submit, so make sure you are comfortable with our Terms of Service (TOS) before you jump in. You can process up to 50,000 documents per day (blog posts, news stories, Web pages, etc.) free of charge.  If you need to process more than that - say you are an aggregator or a media monitoring service - then see this page to learn about Calais Professional. We offer a very affordable license. OpenCalais' early adopters include CBS Interactive / CNET, Huffington Post, Slate, Al Jazeera, The New Republic, The White House and more. Already more than 30,000 developers have signed up, and more than 50 publishers and 75 entrepreneurs are using the free service to help build their businesses. You can read about the pioneering work of these publishers, entrepreneurs and developers here. To get started, scroll to the bottom section of this page. To build OpenCalais into an existing site or publishing platform (CMS), you will need to work with your developers.  Why OpenCalais Matters The reason OpenCalais - and so-called "Web 3.0" in general (concepts like the Semantic Web, Linked Data, etc.) - are important is that these technologies make it easy to automatically conne
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Warner Pays $14 Million For Illegitimate "Happy Birthday" Claims - TorrentFreak - 0 views

torrentfreak.com/e-happy-birthday-claims-160210 warner pays millions illegitimate false abuse copyright clams
shared by Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 12 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 12 Feb 16
     
    " Ernesto on February 10, 2016 C: 56 Breaking After raking in dozens of millions in licensing fees, Warner/Chappell has admitted that it doesn't own the rights to the song "Happy Birthday". The music company has agreed to set aside a $14 million settlement fund for people who paid to use Happy Birthday in public. In addition, the court has been asked to enter the song into the public domain."
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Creative Commons - State of the Commons 2015 - It's been a remarkable year, most notabl... - 0 views

stateof.creativecommons.org/2015 state creative commons State of The Art 2015 licenses CC more billion works
shared by Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 13 Dec 15 - No Cached
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 13 Dec 15
     
    "Collaboration, sharing, and cooperation are a driving force for human evolution. Creative Commoners have known this fact all along, and recently there has been a flurry of new research to explain why. We are hardwired for sharing. Harvard professor on evolutionary dynamics Martin Nowak calls it the essential "snuggle for survival" - evidence that sharing is not just a selfless act. Sharing has concurrent and lasting benefits, multiplied for the giver, the receiver, and communities at large."
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Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen on the Microsoft-Red Hat Deal | Techrights - 0 views

techrights.org/...t-patent-agreement-fsf-replies Stallman Richard Stallman Moglen Eben Moglen Microsoft Red Hat agreement
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  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 07 Dec 15
     
    "Summary: Founder of Free software and author of the GPL (respectively) comment on what Microsoft and Red Hat have done regarding patents WE FINALLY GOT some feedback regarding the baffling patent agreement which seemingly affects every user of GNU/Linux. We got this feedback from Stallman and (indirectly) Moglen, two of the Free software world's most prominent individuals, especially when it comes to the GPL (GNU Public Licence/License)."
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5 reasons Microsoft may never give up on Linux patent claims | CIO - 0 views

www.cio.com/...up-on-linux-patent-claims.html reasons microsoft no give up Linux patents claims
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  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 19 Mar 16
     
    "Here are some of the reasons why Microsoft will continue their cross licensing campaign. CIO | Mar 18, 2016 7:35 AM PT"
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68% of Digital Content Providers Geo-Block in the EU - TorrentFreak [+ buso jpg image c... - 0 views

torrentfreak.com/ers-geo-block-in-the-eu-160321 EU Europe digital content most blocked market single market· fault
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  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 21 Mar 16
     
    " By Andy on March 21, 2016 C: 6 News Initial findings published as a result of the EU Commission's e-commerce antitrust inquiry reveal widespread content blocking across the European Union. According to the report, 68% of digital content providers say they block consumers located in other EU countries, with 74% of all fiction TV licensing agreements demanding the practice. "
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Open Access Can't Wait. Pass FASTR Now. | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 1 views

www.eff.org/...ccess-cant-wait-pass-fastr-now Openweb OpenAccess EFF legislation
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  • When you pay for federally funded research, you should be allowed to read it. That’s the idea behind the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (S.1701, H.R.3427), which was recently reintroduced in both houses of Congress. FASTR was first introduced in 2013, and while it has strong support in both parties, it has never gained enough momentum to pass. We need to change that. Let’s tell Congress that passing an open access law should be a top priority.
  • Tell Congress: It’s time to move FASTR The proposal is pretty simple: Under FASTR, every federal agency that spends more than $100 million on grants for research would be required to adopt an open access policy. The bill gives each agency flexibility to implement an open access policy suited to the work it funds, so long as research is available to the public after an “embargo period” of a year or less. One of the major points of contention around FASTR is how long that embargo period should be. Last year, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved FASTR unanimously, but only after extending that embargo period from six months to 12, putting FASTR in line with the 2013 White House open access memo. That’s the version that was recently reintroduced in the Senate.  The House bill, by contrast, sets the embargo period at six months. EFF supports a shorter period. Part of what’s important about open access is that it democratizes knowledge: when research is available to the public, you don’t need expensive journal subscriptions or paid access to academic databases in order to read it. A citizen scientist can use and build on the same body of knowledge as someone with institutional connections. But in the fast-moving world of scientific research, 12 months is an eternity. A shorter embargo is far from a radical proposition, especially in 2017. The landscape for academic publishing is very different from what it was when FASTR was first introduced, thanks in larger part to nongovernmental funders who already enforce open access mandates. Major foundations like Ford, Gates, and Hewlett have adopted strong open access policies requiring that research be not only available to the public, but also licensed to allow republishing and reuse by anyone.
  • Just last year, the Gates Foundation made headlines when it dropped the embargo period from its policy entirely, requiring that research be published openly immediately. After a brief standoff, major publishers began to accommodate Gates’ requirements. As a result, we finally have public confirmation of what we’ve always known: open access mandates don’t put publishers out of business; they push them to modernize their business models. Imagine how a strong open access mandate for government-funded research—with a requirement that that research be licensed openly—could transform publishing. FASTR may not be that law, but it’s a huge step in the right direction, and it’s the best option on the table today. Let’s urge Congress to pass a version of FASTR with an embargo period of six months or less, and then use it as a foundation for stronger open access in the future.
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Wix gets caught "stealing" GPL code from WordPress | Ars Technica UK [# ! Note] - 0 views

arstechnica.co.uk/...ix-stealing-gpl-code-wordpress wix gets code wordpress embbed in closed proprietary appl bas taste move GPL license terms violation Software
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  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 02 Nov 16
     
    "In which Wix forgets what happens when you add GPL code to your closed-source app. Sean Gallagher (US) - Nov 2, 2016 6:10 am UTC"
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No one should have to use proprietary software to communicate with their government - F... - 0 views

www.fsf.org/...to-communicate-with-government free software for communication citizens government no proprietary JavaScript daner
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  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 06 May 16
     
    "by Donald Robertson - Published on May 04, 2016 12:36 PM The Free Software Foundation (FSF) submitted a comment to the U.S. Copyright Office calling for a method to submit comments that do not require the use of proprietary JavaScript. Proprietary JavaScript is a threat to all users on the Web. When minified, the code can hide all sorts of nasty items, like spyware and other security risks. Savvy users can protect themselves by blocking scripts in their browser, or by installing the LibreJS browser extension and avoiding sites that require proprietary JavaScript in order to function. B"
  • Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 06 May 16
     
    "by Donald Robertson - Published on May 04, 2016 12:36 PM The Free Software Foundation (FSF) submitted a comment to the U.S. Copyright Office calling for a method to submit comments that do not require the use of proprietary JavaScript. Proprietary JavaScript is a threat to all users on the Web. When minified, the code can hide all sorts of nasty items, like spyware and other security risks. Savvy users can protect themselves by blocking scripts in their browser, or by installing the LibreJS browser extension and avoiding sites that require proprietary JavaScript in order to function. B"
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The People and Tech Behind the Panama Papers - Features - Source: An OpenNews project - 0 views

source.opennews.org/...-and-tech-behind-panama-papers Panama-Papers technology open-source
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  • Then we put the data up, but the problem with Solr was it didn’t have a user interface, so we used Project Blacklight, which is open source software normally used by librarians. We used it for the journalists. It’s simple because it allows you to do faceted search—so, for example, you can facet by the folder structure of the leak, by years, by type of file. There were more complex things—it supports queries in regular expressions, so the more advanced users were able to search for documents with a certain pattern of numbers that, for example, passports use. You could also preview and download the documents. ICIJ open-sourced the code of our document processing chain, created by our web developer Matthew Caruana Galizia. We also developed a batch-searching feature. So say you were looking for politicians in your country—you just run it through the system, and you upload your list to Blacklight and you would get a CSV back saying yes, there are matches for these names—not only exact matches, but also matches based on proximity. So you would say “I want Mar Cabra proximity 2” and that would give you “Mar Cabra,” “Mar whatever Cabra,” “Cabra, Mar,”—so that was good, because very quickly journalists were able to see… I have this list of politicians and they are in the data!
  • Last Sunday, April 3, the first stories emerging from the leaked dataset known as the Panama Papers were published by a global partnership of news organizations working in coordination with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, or ICIJ. As we begin the second week of reporting on the leak, Iceland’s Prime Minister has been forced to resign, Germany has announced plans to end anonymous corporate ownership, governments around the world launched investigations into wealthy citizens’ participation in tax havens, the Russian government announced that the investigation was an anti-Putin propaganda operation, and the Chinese government banned mentions of the leak in Chinese media. As the ICIJ-led consortium prepares for its second major wave of reporting on the Panama Papers, we spoke with Mar Cabra, editor of ICIJ’s Data & Research unit and lead coordinator of the data analysis and infrastructure work behind the leak. In our conversation, Cabra reveals ICIJ’s years-long effort to build a series of secure communication and analysis platforms in support of genuinely global investigative reporting collaborations.
  • For communication, we have the Global I-Hub, which is a platform based on open source software called Oxwall. Oxwall is a social network, like Facebook, which has a wall when you log in with the latest in your network—it has forum topics, links, you can share files, and you can chat with people in real time.
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  • We had the data in a relational database format in SQL, and thanks to ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) software Talend, we were able to easily transform the data from SQL to Neo4j (the graph-database format we used). Once the data was transformed, it was just a matter of plugging it into Linkurious, and in a couple of minutes, you have it visualized—in a networked way, so anyone can log in from anywhere in the world. That was another reason we really liked Linkurious and Neo4j—they’re very quick when representing graph data, and the visualizations were easy to understand for everybody. The not-very-tech-savvy reporter could expand the docs like magic, and more technically expert reporters and programmers could use the Neo4j query language, Cypher, to do more complex queries, like show me everybody within two degrees of separation of this person, or show me all the connected dots…
  • We believe in open source technology and try to use it as much as possible. We used Apache Solr for the indexing and Apache Tika for document processing, and it’s great because it processes dozens of different formats and it’s very powerful. Tika interacts with Tesseract, so we did the OCRing on Tesseract. To OCR the images, we created an army of 30–40 temporary servers in Amazon that allowed us to process the documents in parallel and do parallel OCR-ing. If it was very slow, we’d increase the number of servers—if it was going fine, we would decrease because of course those servers have a cost.
  • For the visualization of the Mossack Fonseca internal database, we worked with another tool called Linkurious. It’s not open source, it’s licensed software, but we have an agreement with them, and they allowed us to work with it. It allows you to represent data in graphs. We had a version of Linkurious on our servers, so no one else had the data. It was pretty intuitive—journalists had to click on dots that expanded, basically, and could search the names.
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