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In the 2005 "Grokster" decision, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that file sharing networks could be held liable for copyr...

“Linux is subversive”: so begins “The Cathedral and the Bazaar,” Eric Raymond's analysis of the open source way. The subversion there wa...

As you may have noticed, posting to this blog was light last week, as in non-existent (OK, so you didn't notice.) This was because I was...

The announcement that one of MySQL's founders, Monty Widenius, was leaving Sun, was generally regarded as a pity, though no huge surpris...

There are few commercial programs whose history is more intertwined with the rise of free software than Nokia's Qt toolkit, originally c...

Sadly, it's become something of an event when Eric Raymond offers one of his stimulating essays on technology. I know he's supposed...

As open source becomes more widely used, people have started exploring how and why its approach to developing software works so well. The pi...

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I often bang on about modularity in this blog, and its critical importance to creating and running open projects. Here are some more though...

I seem to recall that Darl McBride, the man behind SCO's suicidal strategy of suing IBM, once received a box of worms as a token of dis...

The publication of the first Halloween memo in 1998 was a pivotal moment in the history of free software. For the first time, it was clea...

Eric Raymond - ESR - is a curious chap. Interviewing him was definitely one of the highlights of researching my book Rebel Code : there was...

I wrote earlier today about the fallacy of assuming that once you start offering money the spirit that informs the world of collaborative e...

This story has so many interesting elements in it that it's just got to be true. According to Business Week , Oracle is poised to snap ...