High Priest Hansen releases temperature adjustment source code
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| Hansen has been under fire for some time now for not releasing this
| taxpayer-funded code in accordance with generally-accepted scientific
| principals (results should be reproducible, and it's difficult to reproduce
| results that are created with secret recipes) .
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http://technocrat.net/d/2007/9/10/26596
You Have the Right to Read Your Accuser
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| The problem here is not an open source versus closed source debate. I have no
| problem with companies producing or adopting closed source software. That’s
| their choice. Instead, this is a human rights issue. After all, not only are
| we being erroneously convicted by buggy software, we’re being killed by it,
| too. While I understand official’s desire for the labor saving benefits of
| software, we cannot continue to pursue this while ignoring the human side.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/08/you_have_the_right_to_read_you.html
Related:
Your data or your life
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| As unlikely and alarmist as this sounds, it could really happen. Intracare
| is the publisher of a popular practice management system called Dr. Notes.
| When some doctors balked at a drastic increase in their annual software
| lease, they were cut off from accessing their own patients? information.
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| This situation is completely unconscionable. There can be no truly
| open doctor-patient relationship when an unrelated third party is the
| de facto owner of and gatekeeper to all related data.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1709
Secret Breathalyzer Software Finally Revealed
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| As I’ve indicated in previous posts, defense attorneys for years have been
| trying to discover the software source code used by manufacturers of various
| breathalyzer models.
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http://www.duiblog.com/2007/09/04/secret-breathalyzer-software-finally-revealed/
Microsoft Muscles the NYS Legislature
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| Microsoft’s proposed change to state law would effectively render
| our current requirements for escrow and the ability for independent
| review of source code in the event of disputes completely meaningless
| - and with it the protections the public fought so hard for.
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http://nyvv.org/blog/bolipariblog.html
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