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The last six months have seen a fierce debate in Italy over a proposal by the Italian communications watchdog Agcom to grant itself wide-...

One of the heartening recent developments in the world of digital copyright is that we have moved on from manifestly biased surveys about...

Last year we wrote about EMI suing the Irish government for having the temerity not to pass a SOPA-Like censorship law. That truly ex...

Different countries are moving at different speeds in terms of governmental adoption of free software, open data and openness in general...

Sites that share unauthorized copies of various kinds of digital files are hardly news, and neither are attempts to shut them down. But ...

There is a natural tendency to concentrate on what is happening locally, and so most of the stories here on Open Enterprise are about wha...

As if Italians didn't have enough problems, it seems that their government is trying to sneak through a proposal supposedly designed to...

Last week I was invited to talk at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference which took place in northern Italy, in the city of Bolzano (d...

If you go to the Italian version of Wikipedia , you will not find a gateway to 847,000 articles in that language, but (at the time of writi...

A few months ago, I spent quite a few words disembowelling a BSA report on piracy that made some highly-simplistic assumptions and calculati...

A couple of days ago I wrote about the deal between the regional government of Puglia and Microsoft, noting that it was frustrating that we...

There's a nice little argument bubbling away over in the south of Italy. It concerns the decision of Nichi Vendola, the president of Pug...

Here's a big win for open source: the Italian Constitutional Court has approved a law in Piedmont giving preference to open source, rul...

I love travelling by train. In my youth, I bought Interail passes for many years, and basically lived on trains for a month, wending my way...

At a time when transparency – or lack of it – is in the air, here's another demonstration of how not to do it, this time from the Europe...

For years, the content industries having been trying to get laws passed that would stop people sharing files. For years they failed. And t...

Some suspicious lack of transparency here : The Italian open source advocacy group Associazione per il Software Libero is protesting two mem...

Italy is famous for its glorious art, fine food, and friendly people; maybe we should add “enlightened uptake of open source” to that list. ...

OpenOffice.org has always been something a Cinderella in the free software world. Partly this is because it started out as a proprietary pro...

All around the world, it seems, people just can't get enough of this amazing free office suite, which is now turning in serious market s...