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I've been a long-time fan of the 3D modelling program Blender . No surprise, then, that I've also been delighted to see the Blender...

The virtues of free are pretty inarguable, but advocating the open release of stuff inevitably begs the question: but how do you make a livi...

FT.com, the Internet version of the Financial Times, is instituting a new model for free and paid content on its website. Starting tomorrow,...

Nothing new here for readers of this blog, but good to see others moving in the same direction: I believe we should consider anything we pu...

One of the criticisms commonly levelled at free content is that it cannibalises existing paid-for content in a way that is economically unsu...

One of the constant themes of this blog is that there's plenty of money to be made by giving away things for free. Here's an intere...

The Citizendium project is nothing if not intriguing. The drip-feed of information about it doesn't hurt in terms of provoking interest...

The term "open content" is applied almost universally to materials that are freely available to varying degrees. Its origins der...