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For the last 15 years we have been living in a Microsoft monoculture, which has had very real knock-on consequences for everyone online – no...

One of the most embarrassing features of the dotcom era was a habit of putting “cyber” in front of everything to make it look hot and trendy...

One of the great strengths of open source is that it offers users choice. You don't like one solution? Choose another. You don't lik...

Imagine a country that has one of the best Internet infrastructures in the world, and yet its government effectively forbids the use of GNU/...

I've written a number of times about the curious experiment South Korea has been conducting: making its entire governmental and financi...

...which is surely a offer we can't refuse. For many years, Becta was one of the main obstacles to getting open source used within UK s...

I've written several times about the extraordinary situation in South Korea - otherwise one of the most advanced technological nations ...

There's something of a brouhaha over this report from the BBC... On Open Enterprise blog .

The thylacine is a near-mythic animal. A marsupial related to the kangaroo, it was wiped out early in the last century, surviving just long...

At first, I thought this Computerworld UK story about software vendors “challenging” proposed EU guidelines was just a typical Microsoft whi...

In 1987, the Great Storm struck south-eastern England; one result was the mass destruction of many woodlands: Because the hill was effectiv...

Here's an insightful piece : Let’s face it: a brand is all about creating a monoculture. It is all about efficiencies, bureaucratization...

Here's eWeek all breathless : If the plan is perfectly executed, Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project will deploy 100...