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As I noted on Tuesday, the UK government has been pretty much a total disaster when it comes to using open source. Indeed, it has arguably b...

Why does open source succeed? Apart, that is, from the fact that it is created by huge numbers of amazingly clever and generous people? Or,...

Yesterday I met up with Brian Gentile, the CEO of JasperSoft. He's relatively new to the job, although not new to the company, since he ...

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...when the two main political parties in the UK are squabbling over who is truer to the open source spirit: David Cameron embraced Linux, ...

One word that has cropped up time and again on this blog is " modularity ". It's one of the prime characteristics of the open...

Fascinating stuff from Microsoft's Sam Ramji: When I think about what works really well in open source development and technology, the ...

After modular books , now this : Google may soon begin to offer users the ability to create customized, printed magazines from Internet cont...

Modularisation is one of the key elements of open processes: so why can't we have modular books? Well, we can, up to a point : On Wedne...

I often bang on about modularity in this blog, and its critical importance to creating and running open projects. Here are some more though...

First, this incredible opening par : Some of the changes in the upcoming release of Windows Server 2008 are a response to features and perfo...

News that Firefox users tend to be more up-to-date with their security patches is interesting, especially for on account of the suggested ex...

Here's an interesting idea on several levels: the Zerofootprint platform, powered by Business Objects, provides urban dwellers the abil...

I've mentioned a few times how important modularity is to the efficiency of openness. This seems pretty obvious, intuitively, but it...

I commented before that I thought Rufus Pollock's use of the term "atomisation" in the context of open content didn't qui...

On Saturday I attended the Open Knowledge 1.0 meeting, which was highly enjoyable from many points of view. The location was atmospheric: ...

When I wrote about the open source router Vyatta , I noted that it was slightly ironic that only now is free software addressing the area. ...

One of the central theses of this blog is that for things like software, modularity produces more and better code, because it allows a kind ...

An interesting thought about the modular design of free software: We have observed a number of projects where software development is drive...