This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017.

#20yrsago Developing world kept down by intellectual property https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/14/business/new-economy-intellectual-property-debate-takes-page-19th-century-america.html

#20yrsago Open spectrum explained — REALLY well https://web.archive.org/web/20021029232157/www.newamerica.net/Download_Docs/pdfs/Pub_File_1001_1.PDF

#15yrsago Logo’s 40th birthday https://www.wired.com/2007/10/forward-40-wher/

#15yrsago Law-firm: copyright prohibits “view source” on our page https://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2007/10/you-hereby-agre.html

#10yrsago Universal Computer Users contemporary-home-computing.org/turing-complete-user/

#10yrsago Gary McKinnon on the decision not to extradite him to the USA https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/17/gary-mckinnon-feels-set-free

#5yrsago Stephen Fry’s lecture on a hopeful, cautious, excited vision of a better technological world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24F6C1KfbjM

#5yrsago WPA2 was kracked because it was based on a closed standard that you needed to pay to read https://www.wired.com/story/krack-wi-fi-meltdown-open-standards/

#5yrsago Bake: fizzing Alien facehugger pudding-cups…