- Apple HTML5 patent angers W3C – ComputerworldUK.com
- …The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is seeking to invalidate a pair of Apple patents so the underlying technologies can be used as part of a royalty-free HTML5 stack.
- The W3C’s call for prior art is necessary, the organisation argues, because it maintains a strict policy of validating Web standards that can be used without paying for royalties. By finding examples of the technology in use before Apple filed the patents, the W3C can render those patents invalid.
- …As a member of the W3C, Apple should provide a royalty free license for technologies essential to the standards being developed, observers have noted. Thus far, the company has not done so, however.
- Google : Extract your contacts from Facebook using Open-Xchange | Linux User
- …it appears data freedom is being used as Google’s key differentiator.
- …Google’s stance stands in stark contrast to Facebook, who have begun blocking the popular Facebook Friend Exporter tool.
- Linux News: Community: Linux in Cars, or Why Toyota Chose Freedom
- It’s hard to keep up with all the companies joining The Linux Foundation these days, but recently one jumped on board whose name threw a collective hush over the Linux blogosphere.
- Toyota, that is …
- Why files need to die – O’Reilly Radar
- Isn’t it about time that computers learned to express the world in our terms, not theirs?
- …capturing information automatically and using it to annotate our data at the point it is first stored …
- …do away with files because we [will] have a system that works like the brain does – giving us another new power — to traverse effortlessly from one related concept or entity to another until we reach the desired information:…
- …linked data and semantically indexed information…
- Moving beyond files to associative and stream-based models will have profound implications. Data will be traceable, creators will be able to retain control of their works, and copies will know they are copies. …the focus shifts from copying to the real question of who can access what. …
- …anonymity, data security and personal privacy will require a radical rethink. But wouldn’t it be empowering to control your own information and who can access it?
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