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(This was original published in The H Open in March 2010.) Free software has won: practically all of the biggest and most exciting Web c...

Well, we did it: ACTA was resoundingly defeated in the European Parliament yesterday by 478 votes to 39, with 165 abstentions. That...

In my last column , I suggested that one of the best things that Mozilla could do in order to promote the Open Web and openness in genera...

It would be hard to overstate the contribution of Richard Stallman to the digital world. The founding of the GNU project and the creatio...

The leaked US cables will clearly provide a rich vein to be mined for many months to come.  I don't really have the time to go digging d...

Here's a heart-warming tale of those kind people who make proprietary software, specifically of the piquantly-named company Freedom Scie...

..of utter, inane stupidity. Here's the grand summing-up of Brown's "new level": Terrorism threatens the rights that all...

The Guardian has a nice story about the unexpected success of the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster. But what struck me was the f...

And a pretty important one : The Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s p...

This is something that I've been thinking in the context of the wretched "three strikes and you're out": The internet is ...

As RMS has always emphasised, free software is political, because it is essentially about liberty. Openness and transparency are also polit...

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One of the things I admire about Richard Stallman is the clarity of his thinking. So I was interested to come across these thoughts on art...

Now I wonder where they got the idea for this : This document defines "Free Cultural Works" as works or expressions which can be f...

Great that we've finally been granted free beer access to our laws; pity that it's not free as in freedom. And, of course, positiv...