In defense of proprietary software.. Having followed the debates at last week's World Summit on the Information Society, John Carroll has written an editorial special for ZDNET entitled In defense of proprietary software. [ITU Strategy and Policy Unit Newslog]

Half the Things That Worry Me Most About WSIS Summarized in Two Paragraphs. Belarus KGB chief: Internet should be brought under control (10/12/2003): KGB should exert control over Internet, because international terrorism and organized crime more and more often use WWW. “We are trying to provide all the possibilities, and legal – fist of all, […]

Money and Power. John Blau in InfoWorld: “If the run-up talks to the world's first global Net summit in Geneva last week were tough, those to take place over the next two years ahead of the 2005 follow-up summit in Tunis,Tunisia, could be a whole lot tougher. Plenty of money and power are at stake.” […]

WSIS support for open access. David Dickson, Information summit endorses key role of 'e-science', SciDev.Net., December 14, 2003. Excerpt: “The first session of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) ended on Friday (12 December) with endorsement of a broad list of principles intended to guide the future development of information and communication technologies […]

WSIS Highlights 12 December 2004. Words For the End of a Beginning ÷ First Phase of WSIS Concludes Following the smooth adoption of the Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action at 1800 hours on the last day of the Summit, Mr Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary-General summed up the end of the long road to Geneva […]

Contractor served troops dirty food in dirty kitchens. Contractor Halliburton served troops dirty food in dirty kitchens Well, Bush served up clean turkey and these guys were busy overcharging the Pentagon on energy so they could reap big bucks…Cheney remains in his gopher hole. [MetaFilter] The Pentagon reported finding “blood all over the floor,” “dirty […]

Views We Could Do Without. What is the Defense Department and media's fascination with playing and replaying Saddam's medical exam? We think it's gross and… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

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The tiny T-Cube. Speaking of cubes, there's a tiny new full-functioning PC the size (and color) of an orange. The T-Cube, as it's called, runs on the… [Gizmodo]