Posted on February 15th, 2008 by William McGeveran
Ars Technica has reported that a chain reaction resulting from the death of Congressman Tom Lantos may mark a significant improvement in the line-up of chairmanships influential on Info/Law issues. (It may seem a bit ghoulish to speculate on the spoils right after the death of a great legislator like Lantos, a towering figure [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Education & Copyright, Internet & Society, Network Neutrality, Open Access, Open Standards, Patents, RIAA, Trademarks, Voting
Posted on February 14th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
At Lotusphere 2008, IBM announced that Lotus Notes 8.5 will run on Ubuntu Linux 7.0. This shows IBM’s ongoing commitment to Linux - even on the desktop. And any Linux desktop users help IBM in its ongoing competition with Microsoft. (Domino, the server side to Notes, runs on virtually everything. I remember testing it on [...]
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Filed under: Digital Media, Internet & Society, Microsoft, Notes, Open Standards, Peer Production, Software
Posted on December 14th, 2007 by Derek Bambauer
My former employer Lotus has (re)-launched Symphony, an office applications suite that competes with Microsoft Office. (Yes, I know this is like sending Elmo to take on Darth Vader.) Symphony uses Open Document Format, an open standard for application files.
The fun part is that this is the sequel to Symphony - the original, released in [...]
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Filed under: Microsoft, Notes, Open Standards, Software, Trademarks
Posted on August 2nd, 2007 by Tim Armstrong
Via Boing Boing, here’s an interesting inside look at the technology inside Sir Richard Branson’s new airline, Virgin America. It sounds like one of the most thorough attempts yet to create a technologically immersive travel experience — there are personal entertainment systems at every seat (not so uncommon any more on long-haul flights), but [...]
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Filed under: Media, Open Standards, Peer Production
Posted on October 25th, 2006 by Tim Armstrong
Via Larry Solum’s Legal Theory Blog comes word of an important announcement from the editors of the Northwestern University Law Review. The editors have been paying close attention to the open-access debate (see here for Bill’s terrific compilation of links to many of the most interesting recent posts), and after giving the matter [...]
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Filed under: Law School, Open Access, Open Standards, Scholarship
Posted on October 21st, 2006 by William McGeveran
Wendy Seltzer has dissected the End User License Agreement (the agreement where the user needs to click “I Agree”) for Microsoft’s new Windows Vista operating system. She is not impressed. Many commenters to her post chime in with their own objections to the EULA.
Discussion question: Is this “badware“?
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Filed under: Berkman, Digital Media, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Microsoft, Open Standards, Privacy, Security, Software, badware
Posted on August 21st, 2006 by Tim Armstrong
Ars Technica has word of a new Defense Department report that recommends that the Department step up use of free and open-source software. From the Ars story:
The report strongly cautions against proprietary vendor lock-in and discusses at length how open standards can facilitate interoperability between open source and proprietary systems, explaining that the DoD [...]
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Filed under: Open Standards, Peer Production, Software
Posted on August 16th, 2006 by Tim Armstrong
The estimable Jessica Litman, one of my personal heroes, has compiled this set of links to freely accessible online syllabi for computer and internet law courses at more than thirty law schools. For newbie cyberprofs such as myself, this is truly a gold mine. In the coming months, I’ll have to begin working [...]
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Filed under: Cincinnati, Law School, Open Access, Open Standards
Posted on August 7th, 2006 by Tim Armstrong
The mechanics of submitting academic articles for publication in law journals has gotten some attention in the legal blogosphere lately, doubtless because the impending start of the new academic year traditionally brings with it the larger of the two annual “peaks” in the law review submission cycle. The law library at Emory Law School [...]
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Filed under: Law School, Open Access, Open Standards, Scholarship
Posted on June 2nd, 2006 by William McGeveran
If you are interested in data privacy or internet structure (and who isn’t?), check out an exciting conference here at the Berkman Center, June 19-21, entitled “Identity Mashup: Who Controls and Protects the Digital Me?” There is a lot of attention now on “identity management” both online and off, and numerous projects in various stages [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Berkman, Open Standards, Privacy