Confessions of a Unix Addict

Thursday, July 1, 2004

Wikipedia now publishes license metadata, using the Creative Commons license metadata vocabulary to describe the GNU FDL license.

Browsing Wikipedia with mozCC installed.

MediaWiki, the software that runs Wikipedia, now has support for CC metadata built in. WikiTravel, a CC-licensed world travel guide also already uses this capability.

Many thanks to Brion Vibber and Evan Prodromou for adding CC metadata support to this important software.

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I kind of like the idea.
9:41:54 AM

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BOFH peers through the proxy mirror. Episode 21 And finds something illegal, even in Leeds... By Simon Travaglia . [The Register]
As a SysAdmin, I deeply despise that kind of behavior ;-)
9:39:37 AM

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EFF Publishes Patent Hit List. Winnowing a field of nearly 200 questionable patents, the Electronic Frontier Foundation decides to challenge 10 of what the group considers to be the most dubious and abused technology patents. By Daniel Terdiman. [Wired News]
'hope the effort isn't futile.
9:38:23 AM

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Night Goggles Capture Spider-Man Movie Bootlegger. linuxwrangler writes "According to SFGate.com/AP, a teen has been arrested for attempting to bootleg the Spider-Man 2 movie, after a projectionist using ... [Slashdot]
I don't endorse behavior like that, on neither side, but the situation seems to get out of hand, judging from an article called The photographer as a criminal via Cinema Minima.
My take on this is known, if the movie is worth something, I want to see it on the silver screen and not on my computer. OTOH, I know people warning other people of spending money on crappy movies by doing a "test screen" of a new release. Can't be good for the pockets of the Media Cartel™, just for the unsuspecting customer. A clear conflict of interest that won't be solved with the paying customer in mind, I'm afraid.
9:34:46 AM

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