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21 Nov 2001 (updated 21 Nov 2001 at 22:40 UTC) »

Congratulations Jonas!

The obnoxious Nicklas Lundblad of Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, wrote a reply to my article on free software and democracy stating that free software has nothing to do with democracy (only in Swedish). His reply will be published in Vision tomorrow, but we run it in Gnuheter tonight.

Well, that's about it.

Some advocacy today.

The Swedish weekly publication Vision published on of my articles today. It is a huge one (9000+ characters, two whole pages in the magazine). It was an article on free software, open source, the leaders and the bridges of New York. Very Berkmanish.

The article (only in Swedish).

A new Slashdot submission today, this time on Pawlo vs Bildt on the future of ICANN.

19 Oct 2001 (updated 19 Oct 2001 at 15:30 UTC) »
Slashdot advocacy today. Old stuff for Advogato readers, but it always takes some time for a piece to reach the Slashdot editors. By the way, the editors rejected my story on Osama Bert Laden instead of beeing first in the world running it. But I sure can understand that they had a hard time believing it .-)

Mikael

Wired ran an interesting piece by Russ Mitchell in the latest issue of the magazine. Mitchell focus on the so called war between Microsoft and Linux and why Linux will have a hard time winning such a war, and especially in respect of the desktops. The article was only available in the paper issue, but is now also available online.

Re ad the article.

17 Oct 2001 (updated 17 Oct 2001 at 08:04 UTC) »
As reported by Gnuheter, Richard M Stallman does not want to be associated with the open source movement. We all know that and now the editor of the Dr Dobbs Journal knows it too. Apparently, Dr Dobbs ran an article where Richard M Stallman was associated with open source. In an open letter, Stallman explains why this is utterly wrong:

If the House Un-American Activities Committee asked me, "Are you now or have you ever been a supporter of the open source movement," I could proudly and cheerfully say no. I've been campaigning since 1984 for *free software*-- free as in freedom.

Read the letter.

I was sorry to learn today that the Swedish branch of DX3 filed it's petition in bancruptcy. I don't know if this is limited in respect of the Swedish branch, DX3 Nordic AB, or if the same financial problems concern the rest of the DX3 Group.

It was DX3's mission to be "the leading provider of back-end content distribution and promotion solutions, bridging the gap between the traditional entertainment industries and the revolution of direct distribution via the Internet and emerging wireless and digital formats".

DX3 was funded by venture capital firm New Media Spark (the principal owner).

More on DX3: http://www.dx3.net/

It seems to be very hard to commercially succed in creating an alternative online music distribution venture. Do you think stricted copyright enforcement would endorse the the online music distribution or does the financial problem derive from elsewhere than the legal grounds?

11 Oct 2001 (updated 11 Oct 2001 at 21:48 UTC) »

Getting a lot of hits on my home page deriving from Advogato today. If you read this and you are not one of the usual Advogato readers, please let me know how you found your way here.

Interesting article published in Stanford Technology Law Review.

"In this Article, I have two goals: First, I will suggest a possible reason why parts of legal academia have reacted so favorably to the open source philosophy. Second, I will take a closer look at the philosophy itself and try to show that it is conceptually flawed."

So, here is an odd and very fresh story (I just spoke to Declan at Wired and he will most probably write something about it).

Reuters picture of pro-taliban rallies in Bangladesh:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/ 20011009/wl/imdf09102001085522a.html

Check the picture by the ear of Osama Bin Laden on the poster. Yes, it is indeed Bert of Sesame Street.

Today this picture was published in Swedens leading tabloid (removed from the online edition after a few hours):

http:// harvard.pawlo.com/bangladesh.jpg

Check by the ear again.

Of course I know about the Evil Bert web site ( http://www.fractalcow.com/ bert/bert.htm ), but this is something else.

This seems to be actual footage of the rallies.

It looks like whoever made the poster included the picture of Usama Bin Laden and Bert of Sesame Street found at the < following URL:

http://www.angelfire.com/de/cheatsbert/ p3laden.html

So this is what copyright infringement on the Internet will lead to in practice .-D

Amazing - isn't it!?

Regards

Mikael Pawlo

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