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23 November 2013
European Privacy Lost - and How to Get it Back
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At the beginning of this year, I discussed a report written for the European Parliament, which warned that the US legal framework allow...
26 October 2013
Turning the Sow's Ear of Surveillance into a Silk Purse
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On Wednesday I wrote about the Houses of Parliament deciding to use cloud computing solutions, despite the fact that we now know - not ...
Clear Thinking Needed in a Cloudy World
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Last week I wrote about the perils of using proprietary software, where companies regularly hand over zero-day vulnerabilities to the U...
10 February 2013
Toxic Cloud Computing, and How Open Source Can Help
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There are so many parts to the institutions running the European Union that it's easy to lose sight of them all and their varied act...
11 November 2012
Open Source Outlook in UK Government still Cloudy?
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I've been noting "hopeful" moves towards the wider use of open source by the UK government for so long that I daren't d...
27 May 2011
Will Apple Redeem Piracy?
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One of the central arguments I and others make is that piracy is actually *good* for media producers in all sorts of ways (there lots of lin...
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19 January 2011
Rackspace's CEO on Open Source and OpenStack
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I wrote about the open source OpenStack back in October, based largely on wandering around the main OpenStack site. But there's no subst...
08 December 2010
Not All Chrome Glisters
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The unveiling of Google's Chrome OS is rather extraordinary - not so much for what was announced, but how. After all, the first details ...
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25 October 2010
How is OpenStack Stacking Up?
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You may have noticed there's a fair bit of interest in this cloud computing thing. You've probably also come across various articles...
06 May 2010
Diaspora: Freedom in the Cloud?
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One of the key thinkers in the free software world is Eben Moglen. He's been the legal brains behind the most recent iterations of the G...
08 February 2010
Microsoft's Sulphurous Cloud Computing Offer
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I've written before about Microsoft's attempts to break into the world of academic computing, currently dominated by GNU/Linux, by ...
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23 June 2009
Why Open Source, Clouds and Crowds Rule
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The Guardian 's crowd-sourcing of the initial analysis of hundreds of thousands of PDFs of MPs' expenses is fast becoming mythic. I...
16 June 2009
Behold Opera Unite: the Anti-Cloud
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I have a soft spot for Opera. I've always been a fan of this plucky underdog, ploughing its own furrow, and doing all the other metaphor...
07 May 2009
It's Open, Gov, Honest
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Interesting to see Microsoft jumping on the openness bandwagon again - specifically, on the open government bandwagon: The Open Government ...
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20 April 2009
What are the Legal Implications of Cloud Computing?
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To say that cloud computing is trendy would be an understatement: the topic is almost inescapable in the world of computing these days. I...
31 March 2009
Trailing Clouds of Openness
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As you may have heard, there's been a bit of a to-do over a new “Open Cloud Manifesto.” Here's the central idea: The industry needs ...
17 March 2009
Open Enterprise Interview: Mike Olson, Cloudera
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Yesterday, I wrote about the launch of the open source company Cloudera. It's always hard to tell whether startups will flourish, but am...
16 March 2009
Open Source Cloud Computing Made Easy
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Creating a business around free software is hardly a new idea: Cygnus Solutions, based around Stallman's GCC, was set up in 1989. But he...
13 February 2009
What Mozilla's Bespin Bespeaks
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One of the most interesting developments in the open source world is the way that Mozilla has changed in recent years. What started out as a...
27 January 2009
Wanted: the First GNU/Linux Distro for the Cloud
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As this amazing chart shows, there are basically three great families of GNU/Linux distros: those based on Red Hat, Slackware and Debian. Th...
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