This isn't exactly new, but apparently it's news. A popular rapper, Chuck D, has decided to release an album under a Creative Commons license, which specifically gives people permission to reuse the work in other works.
Over in Boston, not having clear ownership rights to the source code installed to manage traffic in the systems put in place in The Big Dig has cost the project an extra $10 million dollars, when the original vendor took them to court.
The Win-tel duopoly is about to become obsolete? An interesting editorial on the Enterprise Linux I.T.
Right after yesterday's post about Lessig's interview at O'Reilly, Chris Anderson, editor of Wired, has written a piece contradicting Lessig's belief that most creative works should not be copyrighted.
The O'Reilly Network has a fascinating Interview with Lawrence Lessig, where he explores these and other topics.
Novell is sponsoring development of a new email/calendar server called Hula. This promises to be an Exchange killer, providing standards-based calendar sharing and storage using WebCal to share calendars and free/busy information.
Hah! You gotta love this one: It Pays To Read License Agreements. PC Pitstop put a little clause in their software license agreement, saying to contact them for financial compensation for reading that far.
In our previous episode, my laptop had died a spectacular death from a full cup of coffee. I had to send it into the IBM depot, where they replaced nearly everything but the battery. Including the hard drive.
At Freelock Computing, several of our clients are looking for decent project management tools. We think we're going to roll our own solution, but have found a few new options.
Great background information on what I always considered to be "Windows Networking". The author of Samba writes about the Myths about Samba.
A whole series of stories about Intellectual Property. First, an interesting story in the Globe and Mail. The Globe and Mail: How copyright could be killing culture.
Two interesting stories from Mad Penguin: a good essay by Christian Einfeldt posted at: Open source is disrupting the fourth estate.
And another: Open Source: spinning straw into gold.