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I will soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular weekly or monthly work, and major projects. Here are the main area...

I will soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular weekly or monthly work, and major projects. Here are the ma...

I may soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular work, or for larger, longer-term projects. Here are the ma...

Even though Microsoft is no longer the dominant player or pacesetter in the computer industry -- those roles are shared by Google and Ap...

There's a revolution underway. It's digital, but not in the computing sector. I'm referring to the world of genomics, which...

(The previous two parts of this essay appeared earlier.) Or maybe not. There is a rough consensus among cryptography experts that the theor...

(The first part of this three-part essay appeared yesterday.) The gradual but relentless shift from piecemeal, small-scale analogue eaves...

Netzpolitik.org is the leading site covering digital rights in German. It played a key role in helping to stop ACTA last year, and recently...

(This was originally published in The H Open in November 2012.) I was lucky enough to interview Linus quite early in the history of ...

Last week, I wrote an article pointing out that the NSA' s assault on cryptography, bad as it was, had a silver lining for open sou...

One of the recurrent themes on this blog has been the UK government's use - or failure to use - open source and open data. To be fai...

As I've pointed out many times in previous posts, one of the key benefits of mandating network neutrality is that it promotes innovat...

Back in April, I wrote about in interesting new venture from the Linux Foundation called the OpenDaylight Project. As I pointed out th...

As even a cursory glance at articles on Open Enterprise over the last few years will indicate, open source is a massive success in pract...

Back in the mists of time - I'm talking about 2000 here - when free software was still viewed by many as a rather exotic idea, I publ...

One of the long-running jokes in the free software world is that this year will finally be the year of open source on the desktop - just ...

As a recent DailyDirt noted, opinions on the safety of genetically modified organisms ( GMOs ) are sharply divided. But that heated arg...

I've written a number of posts looking at less-familiar advantages of open source over closed source, and here's another one. Pr...

Open Enterprise mostly writes about "obvious" applications of open source - situations where money can be saved, or control reg...

One of the amazing things about free software is how it has managed to succeed against all the odds - and against the combined might of s...