links for 2007-05-30

"Media companies are currently falling over themselves to produce the new hive for user generated content. [...] But free beer, as Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman has always emphasised, is not the same as freedom."

"RETAIL is supposed to be hard. Apple has made it seem ridiculously easy. And yet it must be harder than it appears, or why hasn't the Windows side of the personal computer business figured it out?"

"an online open source collaborative tender for the £1.2 million Cabinet Office programme to create an Innovation Exchange for the Voluntary Sector."

"In a sign of Russian paranoia about satirising public figures, customs officials turned away six works of art, two featuring the president."

"The Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library"

"A group weblog on philosophy of art and its various relationships to mind, ethics, and culture."

Official Ernst Gombrich archive website.

A philosophy weblog.

A brilliant blog post on why CC Licenses just aren't right for code.

A Free Software white paper on "Bugs in the Distribution Business and Recommendations About How to Fix Them"