Monthly Archives: August 2009

Now the UK Enters the Pirate Fray

August 13, 2009 Posted by Karl Beecher under News
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Hot on the heels of the events in Sweden, which resulted in the Pirate Bay gentlemen being prosecuted and a swelling of support for the Swedish Pirate Party,  a UK Pirate Party has now been formed. Of particular interest to the FLOSS bods is the reformation of patent law. As I understand, the new party… read more

A FLOSS Research Toolbox

August 11, 2009 Posted by Karl Beecher under Research methods and tools
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It is remarkable how, when I look through my box of FLOSS research tools, so many of them are pre-existing tools written by others. In the toolbox (or more precisely, in the directory called “tools”) there are also many self-authored programs or glue code, usually put together in a scripting language, but nevertheless the overall… read more