BBC’s move to make pensioners pay for TV licences descends into farce as website crashes on first day of new charge BBC’s plans to scrap free TV licences for over-75s came into effect yesterday A message saying the service was ‘temporarily unavailable’ was on their website Site was down for maintenance on Friday night and … Read more
BBC’s move to make pensioners pay for TV licences descends into farce as website crashes on first day of new charge BBC’s plans to scrap free TV licences for over-75s came into effect yesterday A message saying the service was ‘temporarily unavailable’ was on their website Site was down for maintenance on Friday night and … Read more
Commentary: In 2007 Chris DiBona prophesied 2020’s decline in copyleft licensing. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto Open source has never been more “open,” with permissive licensing (Apache, MIT, BSD) continuing to grow faster than its copyleft cousin (AGPL, GPL), according to a new WhiteSource study. It’s not exactly news, though, since this same shift toward permissive licensing … Read more