John Palfrey, MacArthur Foundation, October 1, 2023 To all the people of Concord, Massachusetts, and particularly to the town’s fabulous library staff and supporters: congratulations on your 150th anniversary! Thank you for the honor of inviting me to share a few thoughts on this historic day, in this historic place. We should pause when things go … Read more
David Berlind, exec editor at ZDNet, has a first-class piece of journalism on the fairly dramatic recent doings in Massachusetts on ODF and related issues. Our involvement in these matters is largely through our work with the Open ePolicy Group, through which we developed a Roadmap on adopting open standards.
I’ve been pleased to see that people have continued to keep the super-DMCA story alive. Slashdot has a thread on the PhD thesis that was moved abroad to the Netherlands to avoid potential DMCA liability (for Massachusetts, with more colleges per square than Irish pubs — well, not quite, but still — such transfers could be quite … Read more
A judge dismisses a lawsuit regarding the rights of researchers looking into filtering software.