Whilst it is a nice move, and I do believe it was through altruistic reasons, I ‘m glad Nicholas Negroponte and his colleagues stuck to their guns of everything involved in the project being open sourced

Hikers found the frozen body of an airman while scaling Mount Mendel Glacier in the Kings Canyon National Park. Now, the military is working to find out who this airman is and whether he was ever reported missing.
It’s believed the airman has been frozen in the glacier for decades until a pair of climbers got much more than ever imagined on a hike.

How fantastic

The new recordings of global hits such as Stars and A New Flame will be owned by Hucknall’s own label, simplyred.com.
“Warner has all of the rights to the original recordings, but they don’t seem to be doing an awful lot with them,” says the band’s manager, Ian Grenfell. “We think we can do more with those recordings than they can. We’ve got a dozen people and all they work on is Simply Red.”

Personally I can’t bear to hear his voice for a second but I appload his standing up to the bullyish record companies. He’s also created his own record label to sell his work bypassing the record companies entirely - talk about shape of things to come