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California's P2P Carsharing Bill Passes Assembly 63-0
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| Carsharing just took a step forward on June
| 3rd in California when AB1871 passed the
| Assembly with zero opposition. The bill now
| goes to the Senate and could become law
| before the year is out. We talked about the
| potential for this bill to accelerate the
| already fast growing carsharing industry
| here.
|
| Below is the press release by California
| Assemblymember Dave Jones who is
| spearheading the bill. You can voice your
| support for the bill at peer-to-peer
| carsharing startup Spride Share's petition
| page here.
|
| Personally, I live in California and can't
| wait for the bill to pass. We've just gone
| to a one car family. I'd love to have the
| flexibility to rent a neighbor's car.
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http://shareable.net/blog/californias-peer-to-peer-carsharing-bill-passes-assembly-63-0
Monotype Imaging Contributes Chinese Font to Symbian Foundation
http://blog.symbian.org/2010/06/09/monotype-imaging-contributes-chinese-font-to-symbian-foundation/
Clay Shirky's COGNITIVE SURPLUS: how the net lets us share and do more than ever
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| Clay Shirky's second book, The Cognitive
| Surplus, picks up where his stellar debut,
| Here Comes Everybody left off: explaining
| how the net's lowered costs for group
| activity allow us to be creative and even
| generous in ways that we never anticipated
| and haven't yet fully taken account of.
|
| Shirky's hypothesis is that a lot of the
| 20th century stuff we used to take for
| granted -- most people didn't want to
| create media, people didn't value homemade
| and amateur productions, no one would pitch
| in to create something for others to enjoy
| unless they were being paid -- weren't
| immutable laws of nature, but accidents of
| history. The Internet has undone those
| accidents, by making it possible for more
| people to make and do cool stuff,
| especially together.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/10/clay-shirkys-cogniti.html
Recent:
Death to âPiracyâ: Should All Music Sharing Be Free? [VIDEO]
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| Free software activist Richard Stallman
| certainly wouldnât say so. Stallman started
| the Free Software Foundation based on four
| principles.
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| 1. Information, such as computer software,
| should be freely accessible.
| 2. The information should be free to
| modify.
| 3. The information should be free to share
| with others.
| 4. The information should be free to
| change and redistribute copies of the
| changed software.
|
| While not all of these principles apply to
| music, he says, some of them should apply.
| And a lot of music fans and musicians tend to
| agree with him. In many ways, the corporate
| side of the music industryâs attitude toward
| musical content mimics Microsoftâs or Adobeâs
| or Appleâs attitude toward software. This
| attitude often does nothing to help those who
| create or those who enjoy the content in
| question; it does everything to make money
| for the corporations who oversee licensing
| and purchase fees.
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http://mashable.com/2010/05/31/free-music-sharing/
Google should add license information to its Market
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| Many of you surely know the Android operating
| system developed by Google. Maybe not everybody
| know itâs not fully free software.
|
| This is why activists from LibrePlanet Italia
| and Software Freedom Law Center created a fully
| free software Android alternative called
| Replicant.
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http://www.sorbaioli.org/2010/06/03/google-should-add-license-information-to-its-market/
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