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Submission + - IOC claims Olympians' name as Intellectual Propert (uvexsports.com)

Submitted by gehrehmee on Thursday February 18, 2010 @05:15PM

gehrehmee writes: As usual, the International Olympic Committee is coming down on hard on people mentioning things related to the Olympics without permission. This time it's UVEX sporting supplies, who is sponsering Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn. Without explaination, their front page was today updated to include a tounge-in-cheek poem about UVEX's interaction with the IOC. Can the IOC really claim an Olypmian's name as their own intellectual property?

Submission + - Canadians find traffic shaping reasonable (google.com)

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gehrehmee

on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @06:12PM

gehrehmee writes: "A recent Canadian Press Harris-Decima poll suggests that "Sixty per cent of survey respondents said they found the practice reasonable as long as customers are treated fairly, while 22 per cent said Internet management is unreasonable regardless." A major Canadian internet and phone service provider Rogers, meanwhile, compared "person-to-person file-sharing to a car that parks in one lane of a busy highway at all times of the day or night, clogging the roadways for everyone unless someone takes action". Is there a lack of education about these issues, and the long term effects of traffic shaping on free communication? Or are net-neutrality advocates just out of touch?"

Submission + - Public Bug Tracking and Open-source Policy (gnome.org)

Submitted by Observer on Saturday March 14, 2009 @12:00PM

Observer writes: Bugs in software are nothing new, but when they're discussed in the open, how do open source projects adapt policy? A major regression in the Gnome project's session manager has seen some major distributions choose to refuse to follow the update rather then drop a major feature. Between Gnome's public bug tracker those of distributions which released (and still distribute) the buggy version anyways, months of debate provide an interesting case-study in the way front-line users and developers interact for better or for worse. What lessons can be learned in release planning, bug triage, and marketing for a major open source project?

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