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Whatever your views about Kim Dotcom, you have to admire his dogged fight against extradition from New Zealand, not least because it has...

Last month I predicted that one of the main tropes that would be used in the TAFTA/TTIP negotiations would by that of "science-based...

So, the forces of stupidity, arrogance, greed, laziness and downright bloody-mindedness prevailed, and the Digital Economy Bill has turned f...

As you may have noticed, there's some kind of political thingy happening in a few weeks' time. Too often, the geek vote is simply ig...

As I have observed recently (probably ad nauseam for some readers - apologies, but it needs saying), the openness that lies behind open sour...

As I've noted before, you can tell open source has entered the mainstream when political parties try to outbid each other in establishin...

I'll get me cutlass : When the Swedish Pirate Party was launched three years ago, the majority of the mainstream press viewed them with ...

Larry Sanger's Citizendium project was an interesting experiment in forking Wikipedia, which has now evolved into something else. Here...

...all attempts at burying politically embarrassing information are shallow : A time-honored Washington practice of trying to extinguish, pr...

Here's a rum to-do : Controversy followed the release of a Kurdish translation of Ubuntu in Turkey last week. The release was originally...

I normally try to avoid posting about politics, since it tends to bring out the worst in bloggers on both sides of the political spectrum. ...

...you wait for ages, and then three turn up at once. Well, two at least: I wrote recently about Willinsky's The Access Principle , and...

Although not quite in the same class as Open Access News in terms of signal-to-noise ratio, Slashdot does have its uses, not least as raw en...

What is exciting about this piece in the Nigerian newspaper Vanguard (link from Open Access News ), is that it puts all the pieces togethe...