Posts filed under “Politics”
And you thought Terms of Service were bad…
I could use a good translation for this.
Copyrights, Licenses, and Money
Scott Adams has quickly become one of my favorite bloggers. He recently wrote an article Is Copyright Violation Theft?, which Dare Obasanjo later commented on as well. It’s always interesting to hear this story from the content producer’s perspective. Scott Adams makes quite a bit of money from his work, and I believe that it [...]
Journalism should not be “objective.”
1) Objectivity is an illusion. I wrote a ridiculous entry on this the other day, but the point is that, simply by moving from an event to writing or videotaping the event, there is an ever present and strong cast that a reporter’s own perception makes on the event. 2) As a result of the [...]
The GPL Virus
The “open source war” is something that I frequently comment on, and as time goes on, I continually grow to understand the implications of this war, and the motivations of those involved. The war is often characterized as a war between the hacker champions of open source software and the draconian closed source overlords. In [...]