Science Superheros
With the current sweep of superhero movies on the big screen like Hancock and the infamous Dark Knight (RIP Heath) I was excited to discover that not all the people who want to help society have to have super powers and dress with their underpants outside their Lycra suits. A small band of South [...]
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I’m not a fan of public ablutions. I lived in res for three years and the reality of communal everything is something I got over about 2 and a 1/2 years ago. And for some unknown reason when someone says the word ‘communal’, my brain automatically associates with the idea of a commune. Which in [...]
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Patents, it seems, are something to come back to time and again.
At the end of 2006, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer indicated that Microsoft thought Linux was infringing on their intellectual property rights. If this issue sounds familiar, it is because I talked about the idea of who owns what and how open source faces [...]
Sharing is caring
Most thoughts on open source are based on the idea of equipping individuals and ’small people’ in the face of corporate lockdown on great ideas. But then I got thinking again about the concept of intellectual property, which led me to… Creative Commons.
Although it’s not directly an open source element because it relates to [...]
Freedom gets messy
Every time I read or research a part of the open source movement, I feel as though I have pulled a thread from a gigantic rug that starts unraveling at my fingertips. Open source seems to cover so many areas from hardware to software to educational and business tools that when I begin each week [...]
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