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Move follows Microsoft’s Linux effort by a day; Canonical also makes open
source move
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| Adobe Systems will offer more of its Flash rich media application platform up
| to open source Tuesday, a move viewed by analysts as reactive to the fierce
| competition Adobe faces in the rich Internet application space from the
| Micros
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http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/adobe-offers-more-flash-technology-open-source-994
Wikipedia push for Ogg Theora
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| Wikipedia’s decision to support Ogg Theora for video uploads may be the last
| chance to break the proprietary video monopoly embodied in H.264.
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| Microsoft, Google and Apple have all built H.264 support into their products
| because it readily adapts to Digital Rights Management, without which studios
| and other video rights owners have been unwilling to make content available
| online.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=4521
Recent:
Wikipedia begins content licence migration
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| The free internet encyclopaedia Wikipedia is beginning its licence migration
| today. In the future, the content of Wikipedia will be dual licensed, under
| the current GNU Free Documentation Licence (GFDL) and under the Creative
| Commons Attribution/Share Alike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA). The update is beginning with
| the English Wikipedia projects, as a reference implementation of the licence
| change, and will expand to Wikipedia in other languages in the near future.
| From this point on, GFDL-only licensed content will no longer be accepted.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/Wikipedia-begins-content-licence-migration--/news/113527
The Size of the Public Domain
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| Having already obtained estimates of the number of items (publications)
| produced each year based on library catalogue data our next step is to
| convert this into an estimate of the “size” of the public domain. (NB: as
| already discussed, “size” could mean several different things. Here, at least
| to start with, we’re going to take the simplest and crudest approach and
| equate size with number of publications/items.)
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http://www.rufuspollock.org/2009/06/12/the-size-of-the-public-domain/
Wikimedia Foundation's Mobile Site Caters to Android, iPhone
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| Despite Wikipedia's occasional inaccuracies, it has grown up to be a useful
| tool. It's good to see an optimized mobile edition of it.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/wikimedia-foundations-mobile-site-caters-to-android-iphone
Related:
The pedia phenomenon
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| I have decided most critics of Wikipedia miss the point.
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| They focus on the wiki aspect, the idea that many contributors can offer
| their input, and the chance that some of that input is wrong.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1267
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