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Story, Open The DEBATES
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Observational evidence does not support today’s computer climate models, so there is little reason to trust model predictions of the future. Yet this is precisely what the United Nations did in creating and promoting Kyoto and still does in the alarmist forecasts on which Canada’s climate policies are based. Even if the climate models were realistic, the environmental impact of Canada delaying implementation of Kyoto or other greenhouse-gas reduction schemes, pending completion of consultations, would be insignificant. Directing your government to convene balanced, open hearings as soon as possible would be a most prudent and responsible course of action. 2
The recent announcement from Apache regarding their plans to embark on their own J2SE implementation called Harmony has re-ignited the long-running Java/OSS debate. James “Father of Java” Gosling reacted in an unexpected way by giving a misleading view of what open source is really all about. Now that the dust has settled a little bit, it’s time for an article that is not championing the cause for the relicensing of Sun’s implementation under more permissive, open source terms, but simply a look at what could (and could not) happen under the open source model. 1
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However, by convening open, unbiased consultations, Canadians will be permitted to hear from experts on both sides of the debate in the climate-science community. When the public comes to understand that there is no “consensus” among climate scientists about the relative importance of the various causes of global climate change, the government will be in a far better position to develop plans that reflect reality and so benefit both the environment and the economy. 4
Independent Jewish Voices will publish an open letter on the Guardian’s Comment is Free website calling for a freer debate about the Middle East within the Jewish community. Among the more than 130 signatories are Stephen Fry, Harold Pinter, Mike Leigh, Jenny Diski and Nicole Farhi, as well as leading academics such as Eric Hobsbawm and Susie Orbach. 3
An Obama campaign staffer said that the candidate was only speaking in general terms at Google about file formats, adding that anything that would allow users to not be “stymied by a proprietary format” would suffice. “It’s not like any decision has been made on which format would be OK,” the staffer said. 5
Like Drexler, Smalley believes the potential of nanotechnology to benefit humanity is almost limitless. But Smalley has a dramatically different conception of nanotechnology from Drexler, one that doesn’t include the concept of molecular assemblers. Smalley does not think molecular assemblers as envisioned by Drexler are physically possible. In lectures and in a September 2001 article in Scientific American, Smalley outlined his scientific objections to the idea of molecular assemblers, specifically what he called the “fat fingers problem” and the “sticky fingers problem.” 6
After all the news coverage over the past year, how much has changed? Well, of the top six names from the Quinnipiac poll, Giuliani and Edwards have dropped out, and Mike Huckabee has become a well known Republican face. However, according to every major news source come this Super Tuesday, there are four candidates with a chance now: Obama, Clinton, Romney, and McCain. 7
For software patent opponents, the recent decision by the European Council to affirm the current draft of the CIID is a setback. The CIID is expected to return to the European Parliament for a second reading and software patent opponents are already gearing up for a second round of lobbying. For many, the debate is nothing less than a call to arms. 8
From an ideological perspective, Richard Stallman is clearly at the front of the queue here! Free to see the source code; free to modify the source code; free to redistribute the code. It’s a freedom of speech thing really! You can still charge for it, but your source will be visible to the end-user (should they care to look). You can look at the source. You can modify and recompile. You can’t freely redistribute modified Sun code. 9
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