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I asked Glyn’s help to answer many questions that came to my mind in the latest few months that shown how tough the fight to keep the Intern...

Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat, the oldest and by far the most successful company whose business is based purely around open s...

One area that I have been covering increasingly is that of open government. The parallels with the other opens are not immediate, but there...

This isn't another post about Spotify: it's a perceptive comment made by the company's CEO during an interview : Q: We’ve heard ...

Free software has won: practically all of the biggest and most exciting Web companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter run on it. But it is...

Open source science certainly seems to be catching on lately: there have been as many articles on the subject in the last few months as in t...

PHP is one of the big success stories of open source, so it's great to read this interview with its creator, Rasmus Lerdorf. I was esp...

This interview about the EU's intervention on the Oracle-Sun deal made me chortle: Q: What is the motivation for the EC itself? Weiss: ...

One of the reasons I admire RMS is because of his complete integrity and consistency. He simply will not compromise on his principles, even...

Two years ago, the virtual world Second Life was everywhere, as pundits and press alike rushed to proclaim it as the Next Big Digital Thing....

Yesterday, I wrote about the launch of the open source company Cloudera. It's always hard to tell whether startups will flourish, but am...

If open source did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it, if only to deal with the ragbag collection of data formats out there. For ...

Bolivia is not a county you might associate with free software, but one of the advantages of open source is that it can be created anywhere,...

Insightful point from Clay Shirky: the thing that people say about young people is just that they understand the technology so well. Well, ...

As I wrote last week, foundations are playing an increasingly important role in the development of free software. I cited Mozilla Foundation...

Good news: Irving Wladawsky-Berger , the person who essentially steered IBM toward GNU/Linux - with huge knock-on effects - has joined one o...

Once hackers have stopped arguing whether it's “free software” or “open source”, and discussing the relative merits of GNOME or KDE, the...

One of the hottest buzzwords/buzzphrases over the last few years has been Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This is rather good news for ...

Here's an interview with Cory Doctorow, who explains with frightening lucidity just how he and his chums broke the WTO system. Key bit...

In the dark, twisted world of copyright, one ray of light has been William Patry's blog . No more : I have decided to end the blog, aft...