brendan scott

Brendan Scott: "This is a particular problem for businesses based on open source because it means that the costs are heavily front loaded."

Brendan Scott: "What happens with context senstivity is that when OOo senses you are doing something which might need a specific toolbar, it pops it up for you.

Equally, if it thinks you aren’t it will remove that toolbar for you (how kind)."

Brendan Scott’s Weblog: "Don Dodge, a former VP of product development at Napster maps out what happened to the company, how they pleaded with the music industry to provide a better solution to them ... and how the music industry had put itself in such a position as to be literally unable to act in its own best interests, or the interests of its artists."

Brendan Scott's Weblog: "Last week saw the purchase, by OIN, of a portfolio of patents which ultimately originated from Microsoft."

Brendan Scott's Weblog: "Chris Smart reports on the availability of a 10" Linux netbook from Dell in Australia.

I went to check it out and noticed some oopses on the Dell site – the operating system icon, and the availability of Norton Security."

Brendan Scott’s Weblog: "The Flexbooks initiative aims to provide textbooks for K-12 under the CC-BY-SA licence.

The obnoxious (and anti-social) ‘-NC’ is absent. Thank heavens these are enlightened educators!"

Brendan Scott’s Weblog: "Far from showing strength, the wide availability of Windows on netbooks is a sign of weakness."

Brendan Scott's weblog: "Running Word compare on one pair of agreements was a disaster. Word seems to get to a certain point in the documents and then fall over dramatically"

Brendan Scott’s Weblog: "Today marks the (soft) launch of a new journal dedicated to Free and Open Source Software legal issues (a "hard" launch with printed copies is happening in London on Wednesday).

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Brendan Scott's Weblog: "I went to the Copyright Future: Copyright Freedom Conference that QUT put on at the end of May at Old Parliament House.

The conference included a lot of interesting talks by a lot of academics in the copyright sphere, mainly concerned with the reform of copyright law."