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The Economist and Launchpad
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| Economist logoThe online team at The
| Economist recently set up a Launchpad
| project, using a commercial subscription. I
| asked Mark Theunissen, from The Economist
| Group, about their plans.
|
| Mark: Weâre migrating the existing
| Economist.com stack from Coldfusion/Oracle
| to a LAMP stack running Drupal. At present,
| weâre about half way through â if you visit
| a blogs page, channel page, or comments
| page they will be served from Drupal, but
| the home page and actual articles are still
| served from Coldfusion. Thereâs a migration
| and syncronisation process happening in the
| background between Oracle and MySQL.
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http://blog.launchpad.net/projects/the-economist-and-launchpad
The Economist To Go Open Source
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| The world renowned Economist Magazine is
| migrating its infrastructure from
| proprietary to an Open Source stack.
| According to this blog post on Launchpad,
| The Economist is migrating its existing
| stack "from Coldfusion/Oracle to a LAMP
| stack running Drupal," says Mark Theunissen
| from the Economist Group.
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http://www.ghabuntu.com/2010/05/economist-to-go-open-source.html
Recent:
Copyright and wrong
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| The moral case, although easy to sympathise
| with, is a way of trying to have oneâs cake
| and eat it. Copyright was originally the
| grant of a temporary government-supported
| monopoly on copying a work, not a property
| right. From 1710 onwards, it has involved a
| deal in which the creator or publisher
| gives up any natural and perpetual claim in
| order to have the state protect an
| artificial and limited one. So it remains.
|
| The question is how such a deal can be made
| equitably. At the moment, the terms of
| trade favour publishers too much. A return
| to the 28-year copyrights of the Statute of
| Anne would be in many ways arbitrary, but
| not unreasonable. If there is a case for
| longer terms, they should be on a renewal
| basis, so that content is not locked up
| automatically. The value society places on
| creativity means that fair use needs to be
| expanded and inadvertent infringement
| should be minimally penalised. None of this
| should get in the way of the enforcement of
| copyright, which remains a vital tool in
| the encouragement of learning. But tools
| are not ends in themselves.
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http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15868004
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