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Last year, Techdirt wrote about an interesting article suggesting that we should  welcome  "cyberwar" since it would be so much...

One of the most heartening developments recently has been Africa's current embrace of computer technology . That includes open source...

Recently, Techdirt wrote about the increasing number of Web sites that were dumping Google Maps and turning to OpenStreetMap (OSM) inste...

Back in 2006, I wrote a piece for LXer called " A Brief History of Microsoft FUD ". This ran through successive attempts by Micr...

Microsoft is currently engaging in some incredible rewriting of history. Here's Horacio Gutiérrez, deputy general counsel at the com...

As Bessen and Meurer's book "Patent Failure" points out, one of the biggest problems with software patents is their lack o...

The Guardian has published a very curious piece today, entitled: “A Call for Caution on Open Source”. It concludes: The UK coalition governm...

I have been reporting on Microsoft all my journalistic life, and believe me, that's quite some time. To give you an idea how far I go ba...

One of the striking features of reports purporting to estimate the “damage” caused by piracy - both of software and content - is that withou...

One of the oddest aspects of open source is that unlike any comparable computing field that I am aware of, it has been stalked for years by ...

You can argue all you want with words, which are vague and fuzzy, but numbers have hard edges: numbers are facts. Except, of course, they a...

There's a nice piece of work by Charles Arthur in The Guardian today that puts a fascinating post from one of Microsoft's top PR peo...

Here's a particularly stupid move by Amazon: Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has signed a patent cross-license agreement with A...

If, like me, you were wondering where on earth (and atmosphere) we now stood with climate science in the wake of recent events, here's t...

Last week I wrote about the curious case of Mr Kallas, vice president of the European Commission. He seemed to have problems with the word “...

Since it's Monday morning, I thought I'd start the week gently, with a little humour, courtesy of a Microsoft job ad. After all, who...

It was bound to happen: opencourseware is under attack : While seeking to make college more accessible, the Obama administration has launche...

I've tweeted this , but it's so good, I just have to blog it too: CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 makes Earth green because it supports ...

Great news : University College London is set to become the first of the top tier of elite European universities to make all its research av...

As a kind of pint-sized free software fidei defensor I feel obliged to counter some of the misconceptions that are put about on the subject ...