Rusell McOrmond

Articles by Rusell McOrmond

The engineering of a political problem

Most people are not technical people. In fact, many people have a form of mental block where an issue that they would normally...

Why it is important to participate in the study by parliament’s Industry Committee

Last week the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (INDU), a committee of the Canadian house of Commons, adopted a motion to conduct...

An ideal future communications infrastructure, how do we get there, and what is stopping us!

Whenever the discussion of “Net Neutrality” comes up we often getstuck with how the current network is configured, who provides it, andother historical issues....

GNU General Public License considered very strong, still not challenged in court

You sometimes hear people trying to dismiss the GNU General Public License, the most popular of the Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) licenses,...

Trying to understand parliamentarians’ misunderstanding of core new technology issues

When asked about what the core concepts are for understanding what made “new media” possible, I talk about two things: the movement away from communications...

Copyright as part of a debate on eastern vs western censorship?

Last week I was interviewed by a reporter from ZeroPaid, a website started in 2000 dedicated to digital music that very quickly got on...

Lawrence Lessig and the Change Congress movement: change from within?

There is a video on Lessig08.org about the Change Congress movement he has launched as well as his current thinking about whether he might...

Copyright is yet another place where Google and Microsoft are competing.

It was interesting to read two articles from CBC earlier this week that had the same website URL except one was dated the 12′th...

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