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I've been writing about all kinds of openness and sharing on this blog nearly five years now. Before that, I had been covering free sof...

A number of sites have noted this interesting study of a particular kind of con-trick, known as "The pigeon drop". What really c...

Collaborating for mutual benefit lies at the heart of open source, but not quite as profoundly as in this situation : US doctors have carrie...

According to a report published on Thursday by technology newswire Tectonic, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, the minister of public service and a...

Here's a rather wonderful document by Tim Bray, one of the key people in the XML world, and someone who evidently knows everyone else t...

Despite frequent speculation that corporate financing is dangerous to the ethos of the open source software (OSS) community, most Australian...

Thankfully we seem to be moving beyond the simplistic idea that code written and given away for nothing is worth nothing. But not everyone ...

Altruism, which lies at the heart of true openness, is hard-wired, it seems : The results were showing that when the volunteers placed the i...

Somewhat belatedly , scientists are localising the physical basis for the kind of altruism that lies at the heart of the opens: They found t...