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Earlier this week I posted Richard Stallman's recollections of the AI Lab at MIT, where he first encountered and came to love the h...

Last week I noted that the GNU project was celebrating its 30th anniversary. I thought it might be interesting to hear what Richard St...

News that Harvard University is the latest to join the growing revolt against the exorbitant pricing of academic journals caused something...

As everyone knows, GNU/Linux grew up as a project to create a completely free alternative to Unix. Key parts were written by Richard Stallma...

Given the centrality of search to the way we use the Internet, it's surprising that we're still stuck with a few file-types - essent...

Yesterday I wrote about Knuth's wise words on software patents. In the course of trying to discover when exactly they were written (an...

The genome can be thought of as an operating system; it runs on the cell's hardware platform (which is generally created by the operatin...

Here's an interesting tale that highlights the absurdity of DRM in the context of scientific publishing - not a sphere where you normal...

Great news (via Open Access News and the Guardian ): the Open University is turning a selection of its learning materials into open course...

At first sight, the $100 laptop has everything going for it: it is based around open source software, uses renewable energy (you wind it up...