Personal notes

Netbooks pre-loaded with Ubuntu — Something is moving on the netbook pre-installed side?

Neelie Kroes: Choosing open standards is a very smart business decision — Kroes keeps hammering on interoperability.

Red Hat Makes History With Patent Settlement - Compatible with GPLv3

ISO Puts OOXML On Hold — After 6 formal appeal against the BRM that [...]

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Online Collaboration: Share More, Share Better;Some tips anduseful links, from Robin Good's blog, for sharing and cooperating online

An emerging understanding of Open Standards;From Georg Greve's blog, a good starting point for cathing a clue on the 'open standard issue'

Cassandra Crossing/ L'Inquisizione in Rete;Article from the italian PuntoInformatico, about the importance of privacy related to some [...]

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Since the new GNU General Public Licence approached and blog entries about it are popping out as mushrooms, i decided to collect some of the most interesting links i find.
Hope this will help me (and others) in sorting out the right information, or at least the right starting point, about the GPLv3, when needed.
So to [...]

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SFLC Offers Lawyers OS Law Immersion Program.
Linuxchix coordinator resigns amidst controversy.
Yahoo Rejects Anti-Censorship Proposal.
Torvalds vs Schwartz GPL Wars.
Italian Government criticized by the Free Software Association.
Sun supper offer appeals to Torvalds.

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Moglen: SUSE Vouchers Have No Expiration Date! (Unlike MS's Patent Bullying): Yet other considerations on Microsoft-Novell deal.
Torvalds and Moglen agree: MS patent claims are 'FUD': opinions on Microsoft's patents FUD
Through the Patent Looking Glass with Microsoft's Brad Smith: an interview with Brad Smith about Microsoft's patents FUD
What's the Matter with HDMI?: an article posted [...]

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EFF and Dvorak blame the Digg revolt on lawyers: couple of nice links posted in Slashdot about the Digg's users revolt after AACS pressure to ban and censor The Magic Number
Free Debates: CNN HAS ANNOUNCED IT WILL FREE THE DEBATES: Lessig's post about a CNN announcement.
Bush administration proposes retroactive immunity for phone companies: another annoying [...]

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In case you've missed these:

 Criminalising the consumer: TheEconomist.com on the DRM debate and the criminalization of the users/consumers.
 OLPC: Fading or stronger than ever?: a response to the claim thatOLPC is getting weaker after Microsoft's announcement of shipping 3$ Windows copies to developing countries.
Review: Ubuntu Feisty Fawn: maybe it's too early for a deep complete review [...]

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Worth having a look at:

Microsoft is Dead, an article by Paul Graham claiming that nowadays Microsoft is not anymore the big, powerfull scaring company it was 10 years ago.
The weakness of Open XML, Microsoft is in need of starting petition for getting its own format supported by more people.
Congress to Fight Piracy with Education [...]

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As i saw doing this on other blogs, i decided i'll start posting here the links which i find interesting during my 'news reading' activity.

Make Way for Copyright Chaos An article by L.Lessig which tries to explain the burden that the Viacom vs. YouTube case will bring with itself.
Archive.org Sued By Colorado Woman A woman [...]

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