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15 February 2023
Incoming: Spare Slots for Freelance Work in 2023
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I will soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular weekly or monthly work, and major projects. Here are the main area...
08 January 2018
Incoming: Spare Slots for Freelance Work in 2018
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I will soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular weekly or monthly work, and major projects. Here are the ma...
04 January 2017
Spare Slots for Regular Freelance Work Soon Available
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I may soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular work, or for larger, longer-term projects. Here are the ma...
23 November 2013
Right2Remix: A Campaign For European Copyright Reform
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Back in February we reported on a welcome move by the Dutch government to modify its copyright law so that creative remixes are permitte...
06 January 2013
After ACTA: Trans-Atlantic Partnership Agreement
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It's not often that trade agreements make it to the front page of the newspapers, but that's what happened on New Year's Day:...
08 December 2012
Outdated European Copyright Levy System Descends Further Into Disarray
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A couple of months ago, Ben Zevenbergen explained how the Dutch Supreme Court was finding it difficult to reconcile different aspects o...
11 November 2012
Why This EU Meeting on FRAND in Open Source?
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Long-suffering readers may recall that the issue of FRAND licensing in the context of open standards cropped up quite a lot this year. W...
15 July 2012
Help Stop Software Patents in Europe (Again)
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the danger that the Unitary Patent would usher in software patents to Europe. The proposal was supp...
25 February 2012
Trademark Lobby Wants To Help European Court of Justice Forget About EU Citizens' Rights
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It was only yesterday that the European Commissioner Karel de Gucht made the surprise announcement that the European Commission would be ...
25 January 2012
SOPA Stopped: So Back to ACTA
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So the Tweedledum and Tweedledee of copyright maximalist legislation, SOPA and PIPA, have been halted in their passage through the US legi...
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Blocking The Net 'Not The European Option' -- EU Commissioner Reding
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One of the useful side-effects of the groundswell of protest against SOPA and PIPA is that a surprising number of people in positions of ...
24 December 2010
A World-Beating Report on Global Open Source
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Something entitled “Report on the International Status of Open Source Software 2010” sounds pretty dry, as does its summary: The objective o...
29 March 2010
Open Source and Open Standards under Threat in Europe
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Open source is under attack in Europe. Not openly or obviously, but in the background, behind closed doors. The battleground is the imminent...
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22 February 2010
A Tale of Two Ballot Screens
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Remember the browser ballot screen that Microsoft agreed to add as part of its settlement with the EU over competition issues? It's happ...
22 May 2009
The Free Software Pact
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As regular readers of these posts will have noticed, political issues are starting to impinge more and more on the world of free software an...
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22 April 2009
Battle for the Soul of the European Internet
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Even though the internet is 40 years old, and the Web 20, it's only in the last couple of years that European politicians have started t...
07 April 2009
RFCs: Request for Openness
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There's a fascinating history of the RFCs in the New York Times , written by a person who was there at the beginning: Our intent was on...
23 February 2009
EU's Free Software Education Programme
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Excellent news out of Europe: A Consortium formed by three universities and led by the Free Knowledge Institute (FKI) has received the supp...
23 July 2008
Open Source in European Public Administrations
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If you're trying to keep up with the increasing number of public administrations in Europe discovering the joys of free software, here...
20 June 2008
Getting a Handle on EU OSS
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Rather pathetically for someone based in an island lying but a few dozens of kilometres off the continent, I am conscious of the fact that I...
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