arstechnica.com - 12/19/2008
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Public libraries have become one of the most prominent sources of free, public broadband access, and the economic crisis has only boosted that role. Libraries are having their own problems answering the demand for broadband and upgrading equipment, though, so the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ...
radar.oreilly.com - 12/25/2008
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radar.oreilly.com —
Dare I say this on O'Reilly Radar? I
admire Bill Gates. If I had a vote for...
Person of the Year, Gates would get mine. Let me explain why. This year, Gates made an important and potentially difficult transition at age 52, leaving Microsoft as CEO ...
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Admiring Bill Gates
blog.heritage.org - 12/15/2008
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Just in time for today’s recognition of Bill
of Rights Day, the anonymous scribe within The Heritage...
Foundation – self-identified only as ”A Conservative” — pushed the send button on a fifth electronic circular under the nameplate “New Common Sense.” ...
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It’s Not All About ‘Rights’
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Can Patents Limit Climate Change?
Tech Observer —
... to climate change. The current working document
is not a call to arms--it doesn't even offer concrete ideas--so much as
it is a call to start considering the issues involved. But it's at
least a positive sign the members of the global IP regime may have
recognized that there are lessons in the earlier cases where technology
transfers were needed to respond to a global issue.
Also on Ars Technica: Online Buzz Key to Creating Long-Term Game Revenue Gates Foundation to Help Libraries Be Better Free 'Net Cafes Silent Protest Planned for ...
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