Yostivanich

“That’s not the way things are today. Sure, there are mas­sive busi­ness mar­kets where Win­dows remains essen­tial. But the Web is a big­ger plat­form than Win­dows. The Web is uni­ver­sal. Every com­puter is on the Web. The Web pro­vides us with a core set of soft­ware and APIs that work every­where. Sup­pos­edly, tomor­row Google is set to unveil the details of Chrome OS, but we already know one thing about it: it’s designed around the assump­tion that the Web is the most impor­tant soft­ware plat­form in the world today.”

“Today the Free Soft­ware Foun­da­tion (FSF) filed an objec­tion in court to the pro­posed Google Book Search set­tle­ment (The Authors Guild, Inc., et al. v. Google Inc.). The objec­tion urges the court to reject the pro­posed set­tle­ment unless it incor­po­rates terms that bet­ter address the needs of authors using free licenses like the GNU Free Doc­u­men­ta­tion License (GFDL), and does not pro­vide spe­cial com­pet­i­tive advan­tages to Google.”

“Sen­a­tor Charles E. Grass­ley wrote to 10 top med­ical schools Tues­day to ask what they are doing about pro­fes­sors who put their names on ghost­writ­ten arti­cles in med­ical jour­nals — and why that prac­tice was any dif­fer­ent from pla­gia­rism by stu­dents. Mr. Grass­ley, of Iowa, the rank­ing Repub­li­can on the Sen­ate Finance Com­mit­tee, sent the let­ters as part of his con­tin­u­ing inves­ti­ga­tion of so-called med­ical ghost­writ­ing. The term refers to pub­li­ca­tion of med­ical jour­nal arti­cles in which an out­side writer — some­times paid by a drug or med­ical devices com­pany whose prod­uct is being stud­ied — has done exten­sive work on the arti­cle with­out being named on the pub­li­ca­tion. Instead, one or more aca­d­e­mic researchers may receive author credit.”

Just what it says.

The Imperial’s plan for the ATTT.