This website is now meant for archival purposes only and will not be updated. Please use the new icommons.org instead.

icommons

 
type a tag | tag cloud
home · articles · a good day for openness in south africa
meu painel
publish/create
editing queue
voting queue
icommons blog

Lessig on Digital Barbarism

Lawrence Lessig has posted a review of David Halperin's recent book, Digital Barbarism.

Halperin, who authored the (in)famous New York Times article calling for perpetual copyright, has now compiled his ideas into a book. Lessig offers a much-needed critique, including citing misconceptions about Creative Commons (Halperin conflates it not only with "freeware" with software... more

iCommons Supports Open Video
A key change at iCommons
Revisioning iCommons
+ all icommons blog posts
 
A Good Day For Openness in South Africa
1
Rebecca Kahn, iCommons reporter (South Africa) · Aug 01st, 2007 11:06 pm · 35 votes · 1 comment
 
Pic: Computers by Onerus on Flickr, Onerus on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)
Pic: Computers by Onerus on Flickr, by Onerus on Flickr
audio
Paul Jacobson and Andrew Rens speak to Rebecca Kahn (6.9 Mb)
CC BY 3.0
stream audio clipdownload audio clip
Very quietly, and without much fanfare, the South African Bureau of Standards has aligned itself with open standards, rather than with proprietary software as the norm among South Africans.

Paul Jacobson and Andrew Rens were there when it all went down, and spoke to Rebecca Kahn.

tags: johannesburg south africa policy-law software open-standards iso sabs


  comments rss add a comment  
 
This is an important issue to get involved in for an international community like iCommons. If you want to find out what the situation is in your country, have a look at the NoOOXML site, which provides a lot of background information. The site also has extensive coverage of the efforts by MSFT to influence the voting process - and what you can do to make sure your Government fully understands the relevance of the issue and can make an informed decision. There are also a number of mailing lists where people can get further support and help. What happened in South Africa is fantastic, but it needs to spread to other countries!
philipp (South Africa) · Aug 02nd, 2007 5:23 pm
your call: is this comment useful?
your take: useful lame
 


  add a comment: you must be logged on in order to comment. please log in or register at iCommons.org and and your comments right after.