2007-12-28

jason: jason (Default)
2007-12-28 07:01 am
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olpc.tv and today’s stuff

Originally published at Lemmingworks. You can comment here or there.

olpc.tv is a site of videos of children using their OLPC. Here’s one of children in Uruguay.

And an article from the Indian IT magazine CIO, OLPC Heralds Era of Low-cost Computing. It will be interesting to watch how the OLPC gets taken up and discussed in countries it was intended for, vs in the Western media; similar issues, no doubt, but perhaps with a more practical and relevant spin.

Also, I liked this article, History of the World Part II where Miles Weston talks about the history of portable computing from his perspective up to the OLPC.

jason: jason (Default)
2007-12-28 10:41 am
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WTO Awards Caribbean Country Right to Ignore US Copyright

Originally published at Lemmingworks. You can comment here or there.

Slashdot | WTO Awards Caribbean Country Right to Ignore US Copyright

The WTO’s recent ruling on Antigua’s complaint against the US over the banning of online gambling resulted in a payment to the island nation much less than they asked for. It appears, though, that this payment was just part of the WTO’s compensation package for Antigua/Barbuda. Via Kotaku, the Hollywood Reporter notes that the Caribbean country can now freely ignore US copyright laws - legally. This dispensation is apparently limited to some $21 million a year.

This is brilliant! I have no knowledge about the validity of the complaints or who is gooder or badder, but the WTO using copyright issues as a way to compensate a country is amazing, because how could you get a country to actually PAY a fine to another country? This works for me.