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post Congrats to the Creative Freedom Foundation!

December 18th, 2008

Filed under: ACTA, Cool Stuff, Copyright — mark @ 12:48 am

New Zealand's new Copyright Law presumes 'Guilt Upon Accusation' and will Cut Off Internet Connections without a trial. CreativeFreedom.org.nz is against this unjust law - help us

Those crazy Holloway kids are up in arms about S92a, and you don’t mess with artists in arms! They’ve started a new foundation, the Creative Freedom Foundation, and I’m delighted to support it.

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post Storm in a GPLed Teacup

December 15th, 2008

Filed under: Intellectual Property — mark @ 4:01 pm

Nic Steenhout blogged a peeve with Wordpress and pointed the NZOSS list at it, whereupon we all opined wisely.

I don’t agree with Nic that this is the fault of the GPL. I can agree that one person who believes strongly in the GPL has brought about a situation where he is doing what he thinks is right. However, I think the situation raises an issue that many FOSS projects face as they become successful.

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