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Project Canvas - Ofcom Complaint

The BBC led consortium developing Project Canvas are looking to develop yet another walled garden. As such, the OSC believes this will have adverse consequences for the device and software sector, diminishing consumer choice and causing inevitable consumer harm.

We have asked Ofcom, the industry regulator, to look at the wider effects on the device and software market.

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Barcamp Oxford 2010

The OSC's Chairman, Gerry Gavigan, will be attending BarCamp Oxford 2010. The OSC are co-sponsors of this year's barcamp, where "...all attendees [are] expected to partic[i]pate in an active way".

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Guardian Activate 2010

Conference - Technology, society and the future: Changing the world through the internet

Thursday 1 July 2010, London, UK. There's a 25% early bird discount until 14th May.

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Response on EIS

The Open Source Consortium (OSC) has welcomed the opportunity to respond to the Consultation on proposals for the European Interoperability Strategy.

The statement in the current consultation does not go far enough and without further elaboration is in danger of allowing i2010 (the EU policy framework for the information society and media) to be undermined. ...

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More BBC and IPTV: Project Canvas

We wrote at length to express our concerns about Project Canvas at the time the consultation was opened ([1], details here).

Our chief concern, then as now, remains that in a world where use of a computer (netbook, smartphone) is becoming essential, it becomes ever more important to avoid lock-in to technologies that only enable high-cost access, do not properly address security issues and wrest control away from the user of those technologies with little or no recourse.

Unfortunately, ...

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