New Zealand – Green Party Pushes for Open WiFi Internet and End to Software Patents
It seems that one political party in New Zealand has some bold plans for the future of New Zealand’s technology sector.
There’s an interesting report over on Stuff which suggests that one of the political parties of New Zealand, namely the Green Party, is pushing for bold plans for New Zealand’s technological future. The policy [...]
BitTorrent Democratic TV App Miro Upgrades to Version 1.2
A major update to the Miro software has occurred this evening. The open sourced democratic TV software has upgraded to 1.2 which features many upgrades and bug fixes.
“We’ve just released a major update to Miro, version 1.2″ The announcement says, “This version adds lots of tweaks and bug fixes that make Miro smoother and [...]
ZeroPaid Interviews Russell McOrmond – Part 2 of 3
In part 1 of the three part interview with Russell McOrmond, there was discussion on topics such as ISP liability, privacy, and Michael Geist. Part 2 continues with a number of broad topics.
(Authors note: This portion of the interview took place on February 22nd.)
Part 1 of this interview available here.
Part 3 of this interview [...]
ZeroPaid Interviews Russell McOrmond – Part 1 of 3
In Canada, there is no shortage of debate on many things that touches technology. Does privacy trump security or the other way around? Should DRM be protected or should we be protected from DRM? One of Canadas many experts took some time out of his busy schedule to offer some interesting thoughts [...]
IBM Investing In Linux
IBM’s affection for the open-source community and Linux continues to grow. Recently they allowed the community access to numerous IBM software patents with goals of quality improvement.Another move, this time a financial-based decision, indicated the support IBM has for the open-source movement, this time, specifically targeting Linux. According to VNUNet.com, IBM has pledged $100 million [...]
