Navigating the Ocean of Information – Past, Present and Future

April 26, 2008

In 1945, Vannevar Bush, considered the grandfather of hypertext, was already concerned about the information explosion in which we live today. In his essay As We May Think he wrote: “The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the [...]

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Permissive licenses and the restrictions placed upon them

April 14, 2008

Permissive licenses like the BSD and MIT impose few restrictions on the use and redistribution of the software. Created in an academic environment, they are based on the principles of publishing and reusing ideas with as much freedom as possible. The absence of stronger conditions for the distribution of software under these licenses implies limitations [...]

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Blog 2.0

April 9, 2008

This will be my second attempt of writing a blog in English.

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