A few weeks ago work on a Core Public Organisation Vocabulary (CPOV) started: The Core Public Organisation Vocabulary aspires to become a common data model for describing public organisations in the European Union. A Core Vocabulary is a simplified, reusable … Continue reading
Rage against the monopolized machine: you should use products how you want Phones we can’t unlock. Shows we can’t skip. And now coffee machines that won’t work with a competitor’s coffee? Don’t buy in theguardian.com, Thursday 6 March 2014 20.29 … Continue reading
“DRM is one of the most salient, and least understood, facts about technology in the contemporary world” http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2014/feb/05/digital-rights-management
EDIT: On July 4, 2014, I decided to no longer support OParl. The two reasons were: missing transparent decision processes a decision by OParl on that day to abolish JSON-LD conformance I then forked the original OParl specification which was … Continue reading
October 2, 2013 | By Danny O’Brien “On Monday, the W3C announced that its Director, Tim Berners-Lee, had determined that the “playback of protected content” was in scope for the W3C HTML Working Group’s new charter, overriding EFF’s formal objection … Continue reading
Cory Doctorow at 9:34 pm Wed, Oct 2, 2013 “Here’s the bad news: the World Wide Web Consortium is going ahead with its plan to add DRM to HTML5, setting the stage for browsers that are designed to disobey their … Continue reading
“Today, a bipartisan coalition of 86 civil liberties organizations and Internet companies – including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, reddit, Mozilla, FreedomWorks, and the American Civil Liberties Union – are demanding swift action from Congress in light of the recent revelations … Continue reading
“A meeting next Monday of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will consider whether digital rights management should be part of the HTML5 web standard. But what’s your opinion? “The future of the Web is being decided at this very … Continue reading
“San Francisco – Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a formal objection to the inclusion of digital rights management (DRM) in HTML5, arguing that a draft proposal from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) could stymie Web innovation and … Continue reading
“In the midst of the major press blitz surrounding its annual I/O Conference, Google dropped some unfortunate news about its instant messaging plans. In several places around the web, the company is replacing the existing “Talk” platform with a new … Continue reading
