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  1. Re:Wait and See by linhares · · Score: 5, Informative · on Nature Publisher Launches PLoS ONE Competitor

    Another problem that lots of people have brought up is the CC non commercial license that Nature is using. This could hamper the Open Access movement (and an author's ultimate impact). Some people go as far as to claim that non-commercial licenses aren't Open Access at all and can indeed hinder progress down the line. At any rate, ONE has at least three years until Nature gets its report card (=impact factor). PLoS ONE is already the largest journal in the world (by volume), and if it can maintain quality, the Public Lib of Science should be safely sustainable in the long run. But make no mistake, Nature is coming here with guns blazing.

  2. Open Source Visualisation packages by Jonathan_Gray · · Score: 1 · on Visualizing Complex Data Sets?

    The Open Knowledge Foundation maintain a list of open source visualisation packages.

        http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenVisualisation

    There's also our open-visualisation mailing list.

  3. Open Source Visualisation packages by Jonathan_Gray · · Score: 1 · on Visualizing Complex Data Sets?

    The Open Knowledge Foundation maintain a list of open source visualisation packages.

        http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenVisualisation

    There's also our open-visualisation mailing list.

  4. Open Source Visualisation packages by Jonathan_Gray · · Score: 1 · on Visualizing Complex Data Sets?

    The Open Knowledge Foundation maintain a list of open source visualisation packages.

        http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenVisualisation

    There's also our open-visualisation mailing list.

  5. Re:it will work if... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Failure of the $100 Laptop?

    Negativeness is your strongest point?
    World Summits on Free Information Structure: http://www.okfn.org/wsfii/

  6. Re:State sponsored copyright infrigment? by revery · · Score: 1 · on France Considers Anti-DRM 'iPod Law'
    I understand and basically agree with most of what you say. My point was pretty much limited to the concept of copyright as opposed to the current implementation. Copyright is a lot like taxes and tarriffs, you can only extend/increase them so much before people find it easier to just break the law. Lord Macaulay wrote/said some interesting things on the subject of copyright, things with which I readily agree. You can read them in full here and an excerpt here.

    Here are a few more excerpts:
    I will only say this, that if the measure before us should pass [...] there will soon be a remedy, though of a very objectionable kind. Just as the absurd acts which prohibited the sale of game were virtually repealed by the poacher, just as many absurd revenue acts have been virtually repealed by the smuggler, so will this law be virtually repealed by piratical booksellers. At present the holder of copyright has the public feeling on his side. Those who invade copyright are regarded as knaves who take the bread out of the mouths of deserving men.
    [...]
    Pass this law: and that feeling is at an end. Men very different from the present race of piratical booksellers will soon infringe this intolerable monopoly. Great masses of capital will be constantly employed in the violation of the law. Every art will be employed to evade legal pursuit; and the whole nation will be in the plot.
    [...]
    Remember too that, when once it ceases to be considered as wrong and discreditable to invade literary property, no person can say where the invasion will stop. The public seldom makes nice distinctions. The wholesome copyright which now exists will share in the disgrace and danger of the new copyright which you are about to create. And you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the works of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living.


    The only thing you said that I really disagree with is this: Authors of the works getting slavery wages while all benefits are ripped by someone who didn't labour. And said parasites ordering the authors to pay for packaging and breakage of electronic copies of the works, as confirmed by courts in many jurisdictions

    I think the fact that the author had the right to sell their copyright is legitimate. The fact that they felt they had a better chance of making money with a parasitic label is regrettable, but I think it is their choice to make.

    Anyway, thanks for the response.
  7. Re:What about your rights? by oliverthered · · Score: 1 · on Labels Trying New CD Copy Prevention Systems

    Public domian elvis just like motzart bring music to my ears.