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Life continues

Life continues

The noise about Ubuntu Linux has increased over the last couple of days, much of it critical. I have been aware that the Open Source militants have for a long time had a down on it and Canonical for bundling

Dave 5th December 20195th December 2019 thoughts No Comments Read more

Crown Jewel Sports

It’s been a fabulous month for English sport; England’s Women get to the World Cup semi-finals and England’s men win the Cricket World Cup. Many will have been following these exciting victories on TV but for the cricket, Sky had

Dave 17th July 201917th July 2019 Politics No Comments Read more

Another look at free software

I read this, “‘Software is meant to be free …” at Hackernoon and found it disappointingly lightweight. It talks of Stallman, thus the four freedoms and the GNU project and mentions Eric Raymond in passing as the man who coined the

Dave 6th January 201924th October 2020 economics No Comments Read more

Surveillance, ignorance and a chilling effect

The Guardian, not exactly disinterested, publishes a leader on regulating Apple and its competitors. I would argue, Apple is the example of the 5th Industrial Revolution monopoly and we need to learn how to regulate it and is competitors and it

Dave 10th August 201815th October 2018 Politics No Comments Read more

Eternal vigilance

I have been pointed at China’s Social Credit Scoring plans via two routes. The first is this extract published at Wired from Rachel Botsman’s book, “Who can we trust”. This details the Chinese Governments plan to build a social credit

Dave 15th July 201815th July 2018 Politics, technology 1 Comment Read more

Monopoly Prices

Monopoly Prices

I have been tidying up my hard disks, and came across this paper, written by me called, “Why Monopolies make super-profits?” which I wrote in 2009/2010 to codify my thoughts on monopoly. The pseudo abstract says, Monopolies restrict supply and

Dave 18th August 201519th July 2021 thoughts 3 Comments Read more

Web Blocking in the UK

Web Blocking in the UK

An internet safe for kids, plebs and Tories The phone companies’ Tory inspired “safe content” filters are coming online. While the road to and strong arming of the ISPs into voluntary agreement was well covered over the summer, although not

Dave 27th December 201314th December 2022 Politics, technology 1 Comment Read more

HMV, a tale of hubris, tax and monopoly

HMV, the UK’s leading bricks & mortar creative industries retailer has gone into administration. Lets hope that its winding up is not as brutal as at Jessops which also failed last week. The FT reports in an article, published yesterday,

Dave 15th January 2013 economics No Comments Read more

Search Neutrality goes to Parliament

Earlier this week I attended the @pictfor meeting advertised as about “Search Neutrality”. It had entered my radar when Alec Muffett who had been invited to speak, announced his attendance on twitter and his Computer World blog, “The Google Dialogues

Dave 8th February 201229th October 2021 Politics No Comments Read more

Music Copyright, Qui Bono?

The Register today comments on whether Vivendi might buy EMI. They don’t seem that interested but they point at a story that EMI had passed into the hands of Citigroup, which I had missed. They are no longer a public company and

Dave 2nd September 201128th June 2018 Politics 2 Comments Read more
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