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Microsoft has a problem to solve. On the one hand, open source is not going away – its distributed, modular and iterative approach clearly h...

It would be something of an understatement to say that open source software has been successful. This has led to many interesting attempts t...

As Richard Stallman constantly reminds us, there are strong moral grounds for adopting free software. But whether or not you accept that lin...

Yesterday I wrote about one particular issue with standards: the fact that the associated patent licensing (if applicable) can shut out fre...

The growing success of open source software has naturally spurred on others to apply its lessons elsewhere. Open content is perhaps the most...

This column mainly talks about open source software, for the simple reason that code dominates the world of openness. But open source hardwa...

One of the (many) things that get my goat about ACTA is the sheer dishonesty of the project. It was originally put forward as aiming to cur...

In Digital Code of Life , I explained at length - some would say at excessive length - how the Human Genome Project was a key early demonstr...

Well, not quite, but here's another of those open source, open hardware thingies : aurora is a usb powered multichannel mixer in a typic...

The Economist does one of its periodic "what's going on in that wacky world of open source" pieces, mercifully not as fundame...

The New York Times has a feature on the Neuros OSD (for open source device): The Neuros OSD connects to your TV or home theater system an...

Another Bruce Perens production : Many hardware designers wish to engage in collaborative development, just as Open Source programmers do to...