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The open source programming language Python -- named after the British comedy series "Monty Python" -- became popular in the ...

Last week, I wondered whether I'd gone back in time. Everywhere I went online – on news sites, blogs and Twitter – people were celebrati...

Here's a post explaining Google's support for just seven open source licences: The trend around licensing is obvious: GPLv2/GPLv3 r...

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I've always been struck by how little known the company ActiveState is, given that it's worked with many open source languages such...

Upholding licences is crucial to the success of free software, so potentially, this looks really bad news : Open-source software and the lic...

Well, to Redmond Magazine , that is....

If the name Dan Bricklin means nothing to you, you obviously missed out on the PC revolution's prehistory (or maybe I'm just showin...

Here's a well-written story about how librarians have undertaken a major open source project with great success: The system, Evergreen,...

The ever-interesting Steven Vaughan-Nichols, who goes back a long way in the free software world, has a fascinating article about a compari...

This story has so many interesting elements in it that it's just got to be true. According to Business Week , Oracle is poised to snap ...

My heart leapt last week upon seeing the latest issue of Nature magazine. The front cover showed the iconic picture of Watson and Crick, ...