Friday, April 25, 2003

Unsyndicate. RSS turns commercial and personal sites alike into text broadcasting channels that can be quickly scanned like radio frequencies. This is great in many ways, but it has a downside nobody seems to have noticed. More ... [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report] Good points to ponder. 10:13:16 PM

OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'. Open source project leader claims move is retaliation for antiwar comments [InfoWorld: Top News] This probably speaks for itself. 1:49:30 PM

Tech books to enter public domain. O'Reilly & Associates limiting its own copyright protection [InfoWorld: Top News] This is helpful, but my bet is that the major publishers (who pushed for lifetime + 70 years) will not do what O'Reilly has done. Copyright has different impacts on writers of technical (perishable) content and on writers of creative (ideally timeless) content, and their heirs. But why let xyz publishing "own" Shakespeare, for example? 1:45:01 PM

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