Aktuelles 4. April 2013

Lesenswerte Analysen, Hintergrundberichte und interessante News:

• Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering Engine That Will Soon Power Chrome
• I’ll Download Game of Thrones from The Pirate Bay, Iron Sky Director Tells HBO "“So, here’s what I’m going to do: I will continue paying your monthly fee for the service because I support your taste in content, but the actual content I’m unfortunately forced to grab from Pirate Bay, because your service is atrocious,” he concludes."
• Miguel de Icaza über Morozovs O’Reilly-Essay "Then we move on to the rebranding of open source.

  The author, who was 14 at the time of the branding for open source, talks with authority, drawing from messages from the very echo chamber that he claims to criticize.

  By 1998 there was no name to describe free software or open source as we know it today. There was software that you could get for free, some of it with source, some without, some with strings attached, some with malware, some without, some was demoware, some of it was pay-what-you-want and every combination in between."

• Das Netz als Staatsfreund Nr.1 — Carta
• Cloud-Dienst Box expandiert nach Deutschland | heise online "Einem Bericht der New York Times zufolge möchte das Unternehmen noch in diesem Jahr Niederlassungen in Paris und München eröffnen und dort rund 100 Mitarbeiter für Marketing und Produktentwicklung einstellen."
• Facebook and Google spread ‚their‘ net across the mobile world | Technology | The Observer
• Windows 8 now up to 3.31% market share as Vista finally falls below the 5% mark – The Next Web
• Amazon’s Cloud Drive adds file syncing, moves closer to a viable Dropbox replacement | The Verge
• Redigi, der Markt für ‘gebrauchte’ MP3s, verliert vor US-Bezirksgericht

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