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§ I am standing in the election for the OpenSolaris Governing Board one last time (this would be my third consecutive term if elected, so it has to be the last time). Each term has been quite different to the others, and I have no doubt this next year will be very different again for the OpenSolaris community.

Since I no longer work at Sun, I’d like to make clear what my “platform” is in this election in addition to my candidate statement. Continue reading →

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• Start collecting signatures on ACTA declaration!
  European Parliament Written Declaration 12/2010 is now ready for signature. The Declaration establishes principles by which ACTA will be judged when it finally uncloaks and we discover how it is in fact armed. It’s time to use your preferred means to contact your MEPs and ask them to sign it.
  (tags: ACTA freedom Rights EU)
• Mozilla Public License to get overhaul in 2010
  Maybe if they do a good job Oracle would consider retiring CDDL and using this instead?
  (tags: Mozilla OpenSource FOSS Licensing)
• NSFW: Hey, America! Our draconian copyright law could kick your draconian copyright law’s ass
  Paul Carr with a relatively fair and balanced view of the Digital Economy Bill – seductively so. But I don’t agree with his conclusions.

  While the social contract behind copyright has merit (creating a protected ‘space’ where a copyright creation can be monetised in exchange for its dedication to the public domain), the digital age has driven a switch from a control-centric (‘hub-and-spoke’) society to an emergiunbg peer-to-peer society. There are no ‘fixes’ we can do to copyright to make it work right; we need to start again and invent a copyright for the digitial age.

  The Digital Economy Bill is well intentioned, but there are no fixes available to make analogue copyright law work for a digital society and I fear the Bill will just make things worse, unleashing a “sorcerer’s apprentice” effect of unintended consequences the way the US DMCA has done. The Bill has to be stopped, not patched.

  (tags: Debill DigitalEconomyBill UK Policy Legislation ACTA DMCA Copyright Internet Privacy)
• The history of MySQL AB
  A great potted history from Dries Buytaert, timeline-style.
  (tags: MySQL History FOSS OpenSource Database)

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