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All Rights Reserved

Link: All Rights Reserved

This one is for Finnish readers. Vino published a very nice free culture publication. I wrote an article about Creative Commons, but there is some much more... I have not had time to read all the stories. I love the old school lay out of the page. Good work guys!

112 - Hätäkeskuslaitos - Koordinaattipalvelu

Link: 112 - Hätäkeskuslaitos - Koordinaattipalvelu.

I just found this coordinate service from Finnish emergency service. It allows people to pinpoint their location on Finnish map. The service creates a paper that should be placed next to your phone. The paper has exact coordinates, driving instructions and names of nearby locations. This would be perfect to finns. Usually when help is needed, people tend to be too drunk, not-online or panicked to give proper instructions to emergency services. Having a note next to your phone will save minutes that could save lifes. ...and this service can make geocaching a whole lot easier. Five star service (exept it had some difficulties with firefox).

Girl arrested over "happy slapping" attack

Link: Britain, UK news from The Times and The Sunday Times - Times Online.

"Becky Smith was beaten unconscious on May 9 near her home in Blackley, Manchester. She was treated in hospital for severe concussion and nerve damage to her legs.

The attackers filmed the assault on a mobile video phone - a craze known as "happy slapping". The images are exchanged on mobile phones or posted on the internet.  A 16-year-old girl, from Blackley, was arrested today on suspicion of assault."

Brittish have a long history of beating people. Tony Blair will work to cure Brittish of the antisocial behaviour.

Mobile tune makes history

Link: Mobile tune makes history.

"Listen to this song and you can hear the death knell of the traditional music industry," said Malcolm McLaren.

"This song is incredibly irritating and puerile and we're still trying to understand why people like it," Gennaro Castaldo, a spokesman for HMV, said

The song was originally recorded by a 17 year old swedish teenager Daniel Malmedahl who distributed it among his friends. The song was discovered and remixed and now five years after it's beating coldplay.

"Indeed, the story of the song itself is a tale of Internet collaboration over time and across international borders between people who never met"

Sound familiar?

Nokia: Linux kernel may use our patents | Tech News on ZDNet

Link: Nokia: Linux kernel may use our patents | Tech News on ZDNet.

Nokia said Wednesday its patented technology may be freely used in the Linux kernel, making the Finnish cell phone giant the newest computing company to begin offering intellectual property protections to open-source programmers.

This news came right after Nokia published 770. Such a hippocracy. They are seeing the damage patents have on open source development. They are not opening their patent portfolio to open source community. - Only to Linux Kernel developers.  Heisse is reporting that : "Nokia is meanwhile in the process of debating whether to make similar non-assertion commitments with respect to other open-source projects the company is participating in."

At the same time Nokia is lobbying for software patents in EU. I have not decided if this is just a cheap pr-stunt trying to collect symphaty from free and open source community or Nokia really giving a helping hand to Linux developers.

Update 30.5.05: RMS has made a statement that he is quite unimpressed. Anonymoys reader makes a good remark in his comment about the Nokias gesture.

"That is, since they are publishing the kernel source (and applications) covered under the GPL, they can't impose additional conditions -- such as keeping current on patent royalties -- on the use of that code. In fact, their obligations extend beyond their announcement. If I extract code from the kernel and put it in my program, they can't enforce patents on that either.

GPL does that. Nokia had to make the announcement. They distribute Linux hence any of their patents must be available to use with Linux under GPL. I guess that this might be one of the reasons why it has taken so long for Nokia to bring out Linux devices.

"  If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program" GPL license term 7

 

Nokia - Nokia 770 Features

Link: Nokia - Nokia 770 Features.

The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet's software is upgradeable and currently runs on the Linux-based Internet Tablet 2005 software edition. There is a planned launch next year of an operating system upgrade – the Internet Tablet 2006 software addition – that will support additional services, including Internet telephony (VoIP) and Instant Messaging.

I just found out that the skins, icons and graphics are all available under Creative Commons license. Link

The Sun Online - News: Octopus vid nasty probe

Link: The Sun Online - News: Octopus vid nasty probe.

SEVEN workers were suspended after being caught ogling sick internet images of a naked woman with an octopus.

I say! Something new in Porn business. I could imagine some one working for church getting "retired" for this sort of action. But hey, these are greasy motor making factory workers   They are suppose to watch porn. It goes with their job description.

The Rise of Open Source Licensing and my good Friends Phd.

Link:
Mikko Välimäki's dissertation.

Mikko Välimäki

The Rise of Open Source Licensing

The book is available. You can buy it from Amazon or download it (CC licensensed of course).

Mikko will be defending his dissertation on 3th of June at Helsinki University of Technology.

Lawrence Lessig and John Hardwicke Fight Sexual Abuse and the American Boychoir School

Link: Lawrence Lessig and John Hardwicke Fight Sexual Abuse and the American Boychoir School.

How very disturbing... I prooves the point that life is more complicated than all the stories and soap operas combined.

The Choirboy As head boy at a legendary choir school, Lawrence Lessig was repeatedly molested by the charismatic choir director, part of a horrific pattern of child abuse there. Now, as one of America’s most famous lawyers, he’s put his own past on trial to make sure such a thing never happens again.

Iltalehti Online | Finnish actor gets thrown out of Restaurant

Link: Iltalehti Online | Uutiset | 16.5.2005 | Katso J-P Palon ravintolasta poisto videolta!.

Famous Finnish actor is ejected from the restaurant by two police officers. The whole event is recorded by Cell phone camera. Mr Palo is shouting " Oh f*ck It hurts. Let me go, god damn it...".

We the media...