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If ACTA was the biggest global story of 2012, more locally there's no doubt that the UK government's consultation on open standa...

Last week I went along to OpenForum Europe , where I had been invited to give a short talk as part of a panel on “Tackling “Societal Chal...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the “ Making Data Real ”consultation, promising to post my response. I have to admit that replying ...

As regular readers of this column will know, one of the key issues for open source - and openness in general - is what is meant by open s...

Last year, one of the key themes of this blog was the battle over version 2 of the European Interoperability Framework, and its definition o...

Xiph.org has an interesting name and the following forthright self-description: Xiph.Org is a collection of open source, multimedia-related ...

It's easy to take things for granted – to assume that the world will always be as it is. And then sometimes you receive a mild jolt: som...

In a previous column, I mentioned that I was invited to talk at a meeting at the European Parliament about innovation prizes last week. That...

So far, I've held off from writing about the proposed sale of 882 Novell patents to a consortium “organised by Microsoft”, since there h...

Reports on piracy are like buses: you wait for ever, and then three come at once. In a way, that's not surprising. To begin with, the c...

Long-suffering readers of this blog will know that the European Interoperability Framework has occupied me for some time - I wrote about the...

As readers of this blog will know, interoperability is a key issue in Europe at the moment. We are still waiting for the imminent version 2 ...

As you may have noticed, I've been writing quite a lot about the imminent European Interoperability Framework (EIF), and the extent to w...

A little while back I was pointing out how free software licences aren't generally compatible with Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminato...

I see that my old mates the Business Software Alliance are a tad concerned that the European Commission might do something sensible with the...

One of the inescapable facts of free software is that it involves a lot of law - far more than innocent hackers might expect when they settl...

Let's be frank: standards are pretty dull; but they are also important as technological gatekeepers. As the shameful OOXML saga showed,...

One of the major battles under way in Europe is over open standards. As its name suggests, an open standard is one that is open to all, with...

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