Monthly Archives: June 2006

The copyright loby (more of the same)

Posted on 2006-06-13 by Dan Siemon

Just before the last federal election the world found out how cozy some federal politicians involved in copyright reform were with special interest groups. Despite the change of government, it appears little has changed. Oda and the Copyright Pledge CRIA’s … Continue reading →

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Elephants Dream

Posted on 2006-06-12 by Dan Siemon

Wow. Elephants Dream is a short movie that was created using only free software.  Even the models and textures produced for the movie have been made available.  It is being called the first open-source movie. I had no idea that … Continue reading →

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RedHat summit videos

Posted on 2006-06-09 by Dan Siemon

Red Hat has posted videos of the keynotes from the Red Hat summit in Nashville. So far, I have only watched two of the three videos. Both were excellent. Eben Moglen: Discusses the philosophical and political ideas behind free software. … Continue reading →

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A Broadband Utopia

Posted on 2006-06-05 by Dan Siemon

A Broadband Utopia from IEEE Spectrum describes how a few municipalities in Utah joined together to build the high speed Internet infrastructure that for-profit telecommunication companies were not willing to. This article is definitely worth the somewhat long read. Several … Continue reading →

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Extra, Extra – Read All About It: Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken

Posted on 2006-06-04 by Dan Siemon

If you follow many software or computer science related blogs you may have already seen the article linked below. I’m going to link to it again anyway because everyone who is involved in software should read it. Extra, Extra – … Continue reading →

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