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I love the spring. Not, of course, because of the glorious weather, since we don't have any. But because it's time for the annu...

So, once again, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has come out with its annual report on software piracy around the world, entitled ...

In my last post, I wrote about my Freedom of Information request to find out how Microsoft had been lobbying against true open standards...

One of the oddest aspects of open source is that unlike any comparable computing field that I am aware of, it has been stalked for years by ...

A few months ago, I spent quite a few words disembowelling a BSA report on piracy that made some highly-simplistic assumptions and calculati...

The issue of Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) licensing has cropped up quite a few times in these pages. The last time I wrot...

I see that my old mates the Business Software Alliance are a tad concerned that the European Commission might do something sensible with the...

Last week I went along to the grandly-named Westminster eForum Keynote Seminar on Open source software: in business, in government. The good...

You can argue all you want with words, which are vague and fuzzy, but numbers have hard edges: numbers are facts. Except, of course, they a...

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Oh, here's a good idea : let patent experts help decide whether or not to grant lots more patents. And if you need proof this is not g...

The Business Software Alliance has published another of its misleading propaganda efforts directed against the threat of so-called "pi...