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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Diaspora, a free software project to create a distributed version of Facebook that gives control back to...

Wow: this is the best single post I have ever read on the commons (and I've read a few): The commons as a common paradigm for social mo...

Microsoft's up to its old tricks of offering pretty baubles to the innocent with The Microsoft Biology Foundation : The bioinformatics c...

It's a given on this blog that open source is changing the world of computing. But what about the IT skills required to flourish in that...

There is something rather curious about software companies operating in the open source world. Although they may be competitors in a particu...

It's easy to become apprehensive about the massive and growing power of Google. After all, its operating plan is essentially to know ev...