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As regular readers of this blog will know, for the last five years or so I have been tracking the diffusion of the ideas behind open source ...

I wrote a piece for Linux Journal recently warning that Microsoft was beginning to hijack the meaning of the phrase "open source...

One of the great things about all things open, is that their documentation is nearly always freely available. A case in point is this monog...

Social networks lie at the heart of Web 2.0 - and of the opens. So it is surprising that more hasn't been done to analyse and map the e...

Although there's plenty written about free software and open source, there's relatively little in the form of books that try to offe...

Any post that manages to link Akkadian with openness gets my cuneiform inscription.

Here's a presentation by Jamais Cascio, a "foresight specialist", who despite his daft job title has put together quite a nic...

If you really have absolutely nothing better to do, you could always listen to me wittering on about the opens at the British Computer Soci...

Here's a man after my own heart : I've never had an idea that couldn't be improved by sharing it with as many people as possible...

Somewhat belatedly , scientists are localising the physical basis for the kind of altruism that lies at the heart of the opens: They found t...

Although we may have a general idea of what a commons is - not least the kind we stroll on - it's a difficult concept to pin down. So t...

Kant would have loved this one. Here's a remarkable wiki from the P2P Foundation that seeks to explore and categorise the efflorescence...

A programme to promote open access in Sweden might seem of interest only to Swedes (or those who like to read Swedish academic papers), but...

One indication of Microsoft's inability to handle the threat of the free software model is that fact that it keeps changing its strategy...

The wilful misunderstanding of Google Books by traditional publishers is truly sad to see. They continue to propagate the idea that Google...

" Open": it's such a small word (and a strange one at that: stare at it long enough and it begins to look like something from ...