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It's time to end government-funded iPhone apps (and curb Apple's control-freak tendencies)
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| Now we've got Apple's Developer License
| Agreement with terms so controlling that
| developers must seek prior approval from
| Apple before even commenting on the license
| itself. We only know this because the
| Electronic Frontier Foundation snared a
| copy from NASA via a Freedom of Information
| Act request (view PDF on the EFF site.
| Apparently, federal law still trumps
| Apple's corporate attempts at secrecy. At
| least for now.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/15724/its_time_to_end_government_funded_iphone_apps
Obamaâs $79 Billion Tech Plan May Favor Web Programs (Update1)
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| Microsoft, Google and Amazon.com Inc. are
| all offering more databases and programs
| online, allowing customers to curb storage
| costs. Sharing software and data that way
| would shrink U.S. storage needs, helping to
| cut expenses after previous governments
| spent more than $500 billion on data
| centers and other technology initiatives in
| the past decade, Kundra said.
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http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-11/obama-s-79-billion-tech-plan-may-favor-web-programs-update1-.html
Will Steve Ballmer's Microsoft & Obama's Administration Share A Cloud?
http://inventorspot.com/articles/will_steve_ballmers_microsoft_obamas_administration_share_cloud_38584
Recent:
Obama Reiterates Support For Finishing ACTA
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| President Obama Thursday reiterated his
| administration's commitment to enacting the
| Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, aimed
| at curbing global piracy, despite a vote by
| the European Parliament this week calling
| for greater transparency in the deal's
| negotiations.
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http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2010/03/obama-reiterates-support-for-f.php
Obama: We Must Move Forward On ACTA
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| What was telling, however, was how he
| described ACTA -- which is that he used the
| bogus arguments for what people think ACTA
| is about, rather than what's actually in
| the agreement. It's a political trick:
|
| "There's nothing wrong with other
| people using our technologies, we
| welcome it -- we just want to make sure
| that it's licensed, and that American
| businesses are getting paid
| appropriately," Obama said. "That's why
| [the Office of the U.S. Trade
| Representative] is using the full
| arsenal of tools available to crack
| down on practices that blatantly harm
| our businesses, and that includes
| negotiating proper protections and
| enforcing our existing agreements, and
| moving forward on new agreements,
| including the proposed Anti-
| Counterfeiting Trade Agreement."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100311/1214528523.shtml
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