Archive for May, 2008
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
On my Swedish blog, I'm just running a pull-down-their-pants series on how the national security agencies have been violating the Swedish Constitution for several years, with the most damning evidence yet to be presented.
The context is the fact that a bill in the Swedish Parliament will mandate the national security ...
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corruption | 7 Comments »
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
A while back, I posted the first part of the nasty tale about how copyright came to be - the story about how Queen Mary I ruthlessly hunted down protestants and introduced copyright as a repressive censorship mechanism, where a printers' guild was granted a monopoly, and in exchange for ...
Posted in Civil Liberties, Copyright, The Lobby | 1 Comment »
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
I've been kindly informed that the video from my keynote at MySQL User Conference is now online! It's in Windows Media format (plays well under Ubuntu - I tried), but as the video only shows me, you might want the slides as well.
So here are the slides in PDF format ...
Posted in Keynotes | 1 Comment »
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Most people believe that copyright came to be as a result of great elaboration and almost Solomonian insight in order to benefit culture, both to help starving artists and to have the citizenry enjoy a larger wealth and choice of music and culture.
Reality tells a completely different story.
Copyright was created ...
Posted in Civil Liberties, Copyright | 7 Comments »