All entries tagged "freedom".

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Data liberation at Google

This is a really good idea (thx Tim):

The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products. We do this because we believe that you should be able to export any data that you create in (or import into) a product. We help and consult other engineering teams within Google on how to „liberate“ their products.

Sep 15 2009 • by Marc Ermshaus • language=en type=link thecloud google freedom0 comments

Fear the semantic web

Learning to Fear the Semantic Web. A very insightful article by Paul Ford.

While as a programmer I love being able to adapt open-source software to my particular needs, I use a mix of closed-source and open-source software without many qualms. That said, non-standard, closed-source document formats are awful stuff that block competition between software vendors and, worse, waste god-awful amounts of my time.

Nov 20 2008 • by Marc Ermshaus • language=en programming type=link semanticweb education zotero endnote paulford freedom0 comments