Chrome, you’re here!
For my last blog post I thought I might do a little wrap up and give deep, meaningful and quite probably thumb-sucked predictions for the future of open source blah, blah, blah. BUT THEN! Google popped up with a ’surprise’. It’s very own OS browser. And since they are now one step closer to world [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Open source for (the) president
Everybody loves free stuff. It’s almost embarrassing what people will do at public events to get a free t-shirt or cap, or even just one lame keyring or pen. The South African government is also a fan of free stuff. But in this case, it’s thought-provoking and potentially admirable rather than embarrassing.
At [...]
How to make a Wiki
In light of the praxis (i.e. theory and practical mix) that my new media course has been based on this year, I decided to branch out of theoretical blogging and find out how to create a wiki myself.
I figure that open source ideas are supposed to benefit the average someone and I am a someone. [...]
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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )A WikiWiki
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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )What a tangled Web we weave
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 [...]
Google for president
Derek Zoolander “Or did you think I’d be too stupid to know what a eu-google-y was?” (with apologies to Drake Sather and Ben Stiller, the writers of Zoolander).
A key issue that I have noticed with open source is that it is not aimed at a niche online market. For open source to work effectively it [...]
Open source for africa
This week Tectonic kindly alerted me to the way in which open source is helping people less fortunate than the Silicone Valley millionaires. Or is that billionaires?
Linux Africa distributors have come up with a way to help provide Internet connections and software access which will reduce basic access costs for people in Africa. The idea [...]
Not all open sourcers are nice people
Most things which I write about open source are based on the assumption that people who contribute to open source production are doing it (at least to a degree) to benefit others. Which on some level means they care about other people.
This week, however, my eyes were opened to a whole new and seriously weird [...]
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 [...]
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