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Draconian Anti-Piracy Law Looms Over Australia

Nov 20th, 2006 | By Chris | Category: Blog, Chris, Law

From Slashdot: “Draconian Anti-Piracy Law Looms Over Australia”
ccozan writes to tell us of a law being rushed through the Australian legislature that would criminalize great swaths of the citizenry. The Internet Industry Association of Australia is posting warning scenarios spelling out how far-reaching this law would be. From the release: “A family who holds a [...]



Blackboard Patenting Educational Groupware

Aug 5th, 2006 | By Chris | Category: Blog, Chris, Education, Law, Software

This is really sad. Here’s the links:

Blackboard Patent - Internet-based education support system and methods
Slashdot Discussion on Blackboard Patent

Academic Commons on Blackboard Patent
Seb Schmoller on Blackboard Patent

There’s links and comments by bloggers on those pages for you to follow up on.
A while back with the pro teachers we spent some time looking at software idea [...]



Croatian government adopts free software policy

Jul 21st, 2006 | By Chris | Category: Blog, Chris, Law, Software

I have a few Croatian/Australian friends so check it out guys time to break out the Velebitsko and Ozujsko Pivo.

Croatian government adopts free software policy
The Croatian government has decided to adopt a free software policy and move entirely to Open Source. Proprietary software leads to too much dependence on suppliers, which can damage the market [...]



Linux Australia Urges the Federal Govt. Not to Abandon Consumer and Competition Interests

Jun 15th, 2006 | By Chris | Category: Blog, Chris, Law

From: Klepas.org

Linux Australia Urges the Federal Govt. Not to Abandon Consumer and Competition Interests
Posted: June 14th, 2006, 11:48pm EST by Pascal

The press release just came in across the Linux Australia mailing lists:
Linux Australia Urges the Federal Govt. Not to Abandon Consumer and Competition Interests
Linux Australia, Australia’s peak Free and Open Source Software community group, announced [...]