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Jordan S. Hatcher: "Why we can't use the same open licensing approach for
databases as we do for content and software."
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| Legal certainty is crucial when it comes to
| build business around new technologies. The
| Open Knowledge Foundation has started to
| tackle this problem with respect to Linked
| Data. Tassilo Pellegrini spoke to the Open
| Content Lawyer Jordan S. Hatcher about
| licensing issues in Open Data and got some
| practical advice to get started on a complex
| but crucial topic.
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http://www.semantic-web.at/1.36.resource.296.jordan-s-hatcher-x22-why-we-can-x27-t-use-the-same-open-licensing-approach-for-databases-a.htm
MPs behaving better over expense claims, says Speaker
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| Commons Speaker John Bercow claimed MPs had
| started to behave better over their
| expenses, saying many of the revelations of
| wrongdoing published on Thursday preceded
| parliament's decision to publish the
| expenses.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/dec/12/speaker-on-mps-expenses
mySocietyâs Next 12 months â Part 1
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| Over the last weekend of November 2009 a
| group of 21 mySociety staff, volunteers and
| trustees went to a house outside of Bristol
| to wrestle with the question of what
| mySociety should build over the next 12
| months.
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http://www.mysociety.org/2009/12/16/mysocietys-next-12-months-part-1/
Recent:
Factual Sees Open Data As Its Future
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| Earlier this month, much to the chagrin of
| some of our readers, I equated the Hadoop-
| focused startup, Cloudera, to Red Hat. My
| argument was that in the late 1990s, open-
| source operating systems and web software
| proved to be major disruptors and helped
| Internet services grow exponentially. About a
| dozen years later, the future of Internet
| services revolves around data and data
| analytics.
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http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/
Transparency against malpractic
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| As a result of my new enthusiasm to 'get out more' I found myself listening
| to a detailed and balanced 'non-advocacy' presentation from a respected OSS
| Watch staffer.
|
| He explained patiently how open source licencing worked and how it differed
| from proprietary licences. But what he did say whilst looking for an everyday
| resonance to make his points accessible to a non-geek audience, and which
| really sharpened every-one's attention, was that proprietary software was
| built on secret code whereas open source software had transparent code.
|
| Proprietary software IS composed of secret code. You can't read it, you don't
| know what it does (other than what you can see it do), you don't know how it
| does it and you can't change it.
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http://www.siriusit.co.uk/myblog/secret-code-and-the-damage-it-does-to-our-society.html
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