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On LWN.net .

In the spirit of passing on vaguely useful information, I notice that LWN.net has put together a handy master index of external contributor...

I wonder whether in retrospect Linden Lab's decision to open up the code of Second Life will turn out to be as momentous as when Netscap...

The recent decision by the OpenDocument Foundation to shift its energies away from ODF to CDF has naturally provoked a lot of rather exagger...

Get your umbrellas out for the Linux Weather Forecast : The need for a Linux Weather Forecast arises out of Linux’s unique development model...

Although not quite on the level of LWN 's comprehensive review of the year, Giff Constable's Second Life timeline is a handy summar...

A lot has happened in the last year in the world of free software. That makes it hard (a) to remember who exactly did what and (b) to get t...

A couple of months back I had the pleasure of interviewing Richard Baraniuk for an article about open content for LWN.net. As I wrote then...

You might think this is a typical non-sequitur laden piece of cluelessness about open source. But one of the ever-watchful readers of LWN....

Open content is an area that I follow quite closely. I've just finished the second of a series of articles for LWN.net that traces the ...

One of the themes of this blog is the commonality between the various opens. In a piece I wrote for the excellent online magazine LWN.net,...