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I may soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular work, or for larger, longer-term projects. Here are the ma...

A year ago, I wrote a piece about cloud computing's dark secret: that using it in Europe was probably equivalent to making all your fi...

Last week I wrote about my recent talk on open access in which I pointed out that Linux has become the undisputed leader across huge swath...

One of the many valuable things that come out of the Linux Foundation is an annual review of Linux kernel development. It's just rel...

At the LinuxCon meeting in New Orleans , Linus Torvalds was asked if he had ever been approached by the US government to insert a backdoor...

In case you weren't aware, Linus is on Google+. Here's a recent post : On Open Enterprise blog .

Long-time readers will remember the appalling way in which the UK' s Digital Economy Act was brought in - with no research, no debate...

The open source programming language Python -- named after the British comedy series "Monty Python" -- became popular in the ...

Linux has a problem: it's running out of platforms to conquer. It's already the top operating system for smartphones and supercom...

Five years ago, I wrote an article about the relatively new class of netbook computers. I suggested the ultra-low price machines runnin...

Recently I've written about several moves towards mandating openness in various ways - in the UK, Spain and Portugal. That's al...

Last year, I interviewed the head of the Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin, about his own career, and about his organisation. That intervie...

In the wake of the news that Android sales now represent around 75% of the global smartphone market during the most recent quarter, ther...

Linux went from being a cool personal hack in a bedroom to software that would eventually change world just over 21 years ago when Linus ...

When we talk of free software, we typically think of things like GNU /Linux, Apache or Firefox. But one aspect that often gets overlooked...

One of the most important messages in the history of free software – and computing – was posted 21 years ago, on 25 August 1991: On The ...

Recently, an interesting report entitled "The legacy of the BBC Micro" appeared ( freely available online ). For those of you to...

In my previous post about submitting a reply to the UK government consultation on copyright, I concentrated on one area, that of orphan ...

The Raspberry Pi is a $25 credit-card sized computer that has succeeded in making GNU/Linux not just newsworthy, but downright desirable...

You don't have to be a marketing genius or industry pundit to foresee that tablets will be an extremely hot sector in 2012. The launc...