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Although e-petitions don't often accomplish much (the apology for Alan Turing being a notable exception), they do have the virtue of for...

Even though I keep signing the wretched things, e-petitions have not generated much action from the UK government. Which makes the followin...

Those e-petition replies just keep on coming. In response to the following: “We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to not force int...

It's easy to be cynical about 10 Downing Street's e-petitions (I should know). But here's a case where it might even have done...

Well, not exactly, but that's we were asking for in an e-petition: “We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to adopt the Hagu...

It's obviously petition season. Here's another one , Europe-wide in scope, calling for an "open European Parliament": Cit...

Talking of petitions, here's one against extending the copyright in sound recordings , open to anyone. It includes the following excell...

One of the novel options for companies introduced by open source is to release moribund apps in the hope that they might come to life again ...

Ooh, look: an email from that nice man at Number 10 about my signing the petition against the Windows-only iPlayer: The Government set up t...

I've written a lot here and elsewhere about Microsoft's faux-open file format OOXML. I've also noted that there is an unhealt...

Responsible citizen that I am, I signed an e-petition asking that nice Mr Blair to support ODF: Government documents must be available for ...

This response to an e-petition "to make software patents clearly unenforcible" is interesting: The Government remains committed t...

Undeterred by the fact that Our Tone simply ignored our last petition to dump ID cards, I've signed up for another one , this time call...

Here's a slightly hopeful development. On the 10 Downing Street Web page (Tony Blair's official cyberhome), there's a new faci...