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More: civil liberties, the Internet, other book reviews. Political LobbyingGovernments in France, Denmark, Brazil, and many other countries have made moves towards free software. In Australia, legislation has been considered by the South Australian government.Certainly it would be good to get a better turnout in community submissions to bodies such as the Intellectual Property and Competition Review Committee.
Note: I try to avoid the term "open source". While it avoids the ambiguity of "free software", it
emphasizes "access to source code" at the expense of other important
ideas. Also, people outside the computing industry tend not to understand
either "open" or "source".
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News and Linksthe World Bank goes open access - ArsTechnica
the Gates Foundation does some dodgy things - TechRights
code is vital for reproducibility in scientific publication - Nature
"with some exceptions, anything less than the release of source programs is intolerable for results that depend on computation" Facebook is a data black hole - Scoblizer
academic publishers are hostile to science - Guardian
"the exercise of copyright is creating a threat to basic medical care" - UCSF
(For more links, see my blog.) Other Documents
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