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If you follow me on Twitter or elsewhere, you'll have noticed that I've been tweeting rather extensively about the NSA' s spyi...

One of the amazing things about free software is how it has managed to succeed against all the odds - and against the combined might of s...

I'm struck by the almost unanimous chorus of indifference that has greeted the news that a court has reversed one part of an ealier rul...

Regular readers will know that I have a bee in my bonnet about the non-patentability of software, largely because of the fact that software ...

One of the mysteries concerning Microsoft's attempts to deal with the threat ODF poses to its stranglehold on the office suite sector is...

Pamela Jones has been digging through SCO stuff again, and doesn't like what she finds: We learn two primary things from Jones' tes...

Ha ! Right now Becta ( [the UK agency that snubbed the free software community] http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/community_posts/uk_agenc...

I know by now you've seen the notice by the guy claiming to "revoke" the GPL license on his code, because I'm getting emai...

For those following the iPlayer debate, Groklaw has put up perhaps the best interview with Ashley Highfield so far: the long-term alternati...

A couple of days ago I mentioned two key players in the fight to get the BBC to do the right thing over its downloads service. Groklaw has...

Groklaw's Pamela Jones is a true eminence grise of the area in the intellectual Venn diagram where computer technology and law intersect...

I've written pretty extensively about the scandal that is the BBC iPlayer. The main man fighting the good fight here is the indispensa...

Well, we all knew it would happen, and, finally, it has : Judge Dale Kimball has issued a 102-page ruling [PDF] on the numerous summary jud...

...and pathetic . When a company starts harassing someone in this way, you can tell they've given up hope. On the basis of what's h...

The publication of the first Halloween memo in 1998 was a pivotal moment in the history of free software. For the first time, it was clea...

This is a characteristically brilliant post from Pam over at Groklaw, particularly in the way it uses the Wayback machine to skewer Novell ...

One thing I could never understand about the whole SCO affair is how the people at Caldera, which took over SCO, could be in any way part of...

When I wrote about Microsoft's announcement that it would be sponsoring a project to create an ODF plugin for its Office product, I sai...

A stunningly good - and staggeringly depressing - article on Groklaw examines how the British Library has sold its intellectual soul for a...

There was an amusing story in Groklaw yesterday, detailing the sorry end of utterly pointless legal action taken against the Free Software ...