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Don't restrict the flow of technical knowledge
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| Iâm a member of two IEEE societies that
| publish IEEE Transactions. While most of
| the papers are rather scholarly, I
| sometimes run across one that Iâd like to
| summarize and provide a link for readers to
| download the original paper. That happened
| recently. Knowing that IEEE forbids third
| parties such as T&MW from posting IEEE
| copyrighted work (I can live with that), I
| contacted one of the paperâs authors asking
| if he would post his paper and Iâll link to
| it.
|
| The author agreed to post his paper, but
| heâs not a member of that IEEE society and
| thus he had no way to download his own
| work. That in itself is inexcusable, but it
| gets worse.
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http://www.tmworld.com/blog/Rowe_s_and_Columns/30177-Don_t_restrict_the_flow_of_technical_knowledge.php
Openmoko updates WikiReader - the pocket Wikipedia
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| Openmoko has announced the release of the
| Spring 2010 update for its WikiReader.
| Openmoko Product Manager William Lai said
| that, "We've been listening to requests
| from customers for better rendering
| quality, improved scrolling and we fixed
| these issues as our top priority for the
| Spring 2010 update".
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Openmoko-updates-WikiReader-the-pocket-Wikipedia-926803.html
Related:
IEEE wants its students to be slaves
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| Below is a message I just got from IEEE. I was a student member of IEEE and
| office bearer of my
| college's IEEE chapter. But I didnt renew my membership with several reasons
| including disagreement on such a great amount of knowledge being locked up
| behind their online digital library. Now, This is a message inviting me back
| to join IEEE offering non-free software from M$ for gratis.This has been
| shown as an attractive offer in the mail, But i feel it as a confirmation
| message not to join IEEE ever after.
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http://swatantran.blogspot.com/
Pillay: OOXML debate and the IEEE code of ethics
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| Harish Pillay is annoyed by the ISO OOXML process and thinks the conduct
| infringes upon his professional code of ethics. But his rules just don't
| apply.
|
| [...]
|
| An ISO technocrat would probably stress now that ISO/IEC does not apply these
| IEEE principles and wash his hands. Admitted. I thought, I had the view
| ISO/IEC process participants would naturally apply principles like these in
| standardization. I was naive. The mere existence of a Code of Ethics is an
| indication that the ethics seems to contravene the common practice. Of
| course, no doubt, ISO is not bound by IEEE ethics.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-48665/pillay:ooxml-debate-and-the-ieee-code-of-ethics
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