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Description: Things cooking in the Minkiverse. They move elsewhere when the oven pings.
Things cooking in the Minkiverse. They move elsewhere when the oven pings.
Like me you may be surprised to see the suggestion from the IMCO Committee to change “free and open source software” in the CRA to “freeware and open source software” in an amendment from Karen Melchior MEP 1 . It's not a word I have heard much this decade, so I checked with her team and discovered this was an informed and intentional choice, not a misunderstanding (by them, at least).
I just read a news story about how Chinese tech companies are threatening Europe by registering so many patents. Turns out it's in the context of “open standards” and is actually Chinese companies copying what European multinationals have done for years with patents embedded in standards. That Sword of Damocles cuts both ways.
Minkiverse Overview | Heart of the Minkiverse
Wild Webmink | Simon Phipps' views on technology, politics, music and more – with a few good photos too