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18 September 2013
Open Data, Creative Destruction and Money
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Nearly three years ago, I wrote an article exploring why at that time there were no billion-dollar companies (since then, Red Hat has fin...
Mozilla Sends Cease And Desist Letter To Commercial Spyware Company For Using Firefox Trademark And Code To Trick Users
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Techdirt has written several times about the increasing tendency for governments around the world to turn to malware as a way of spying ...
20 July 2013
The Future of Commercial Open Source: Foundations
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Remember MySQL? Most famous for being part of the LAMP stack, and thus powering the bulk of the innovative work done in the field of ec...
http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/04/italys-big-leap-forward-for-openness/index.htm
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A few weeks ago, I wrote of the continuing progress on the central Gov.uk site, which is a showcase of open technologies, as well as be...
Italy's Great Leap Forward for Openness?
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Different countries are moving at different speeds in terms of governmental adoption of free software, open data and openness in general...
03 May 2013
Please Help Save Open Source Seeds Now
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Seeds have much in common with code. Indeed, I wrote an entire book about how genomics parallels the world of software. In particular, t...
14 April 2013
EU Proposal for (Nearly) Open Data [Update]
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Update: Maƫl Brunet has pointed out that the press release I linked to below is from 2011; what was actually announced yesterday was...
OpenDaylight and the Future of Enterprise Software
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Earlier this week, the Linux Foundation made an announcement about the oddly-named OpenDaylight project: On Open Enterprise blog .
Mozilla and the Open Source Browser Bonanza
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Even if you don't remember the birth of Mozilla 15 years ago , you are certainly benefitting from its consequences. For, back then, ...
31 March 2013
Open Source: That's the Way to Do It
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Although the use of open source by the UK government has an unhappy history (and one that certainly isn't finished), one ray of hope ...
Apple's Patent For Creating A Leak-Proof Data Pipe, And Why It's Doomed To Fail
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In 2001, I published a history of free software, called "Rebel Code: Inside Linux and the Open Source Revolution." One of the...
Reading the Google Reader Tea-leaves
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If you were online late last night - and especially if you were on Twitter - you may have noted an enormous wave of pain and anger sweepi...
Could Open Source Software Be Put Into The Public Domain Instead?
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There are dozens of free software and open source licences -- many would argue rather too many. Different licenses impose different condi...
17 March 2013
France Considers Operating System-Level Filtering
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Long-time readers will remember the appalling way in which the UK' s Digital Economy Act was brought in - with no research, no debate...
11 February 2013
UK National Curriculum: A Level Playing-Field?
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Just over a year ago, I reported on a remarkable speech by the UK Education Secretary Michael Gove that contained the following words: ...
10 February 2013
UK Government Fails Its First Big Procurement Test
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As regular readers of Computerworld UK know, the UK government has repeatedly said that it wishes to move on from the past patterns of p...
VLC Multimedia Player Shows Changing Open Source License Is Hard, But Possible
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Licenses lie at the heart of open source -- and many other kinds of "open" too. That's because they are used to define the...
Taking open source foundations to the next level
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Krita is a fine sketching and painting program, but few would claim that it is one of the big names in the open source world, such as F...
We, the People; We, the Coders
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It's generally accepted that one of the reasons Barack Obama was re-elected as US President last year was the superiority of the IT ...
Another Reason to Use Open Source: Sane Licensing
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A couple of weeks ago, I pointed out how a decision in Norway involving cash registers emphasised one of the advantages of open source ...
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