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I still remember well the day in October 1994 when I downloaded the first beta of Netscape's browser. It was instantly obvious that t...

As regular readers know, there is a struggle going on between the free software community that needs open standards to be RF (strictly sp...

Here's an interesting move from the European Commission: On Open Enterprise blog .

Somewhat belatedly (apologies), here is the second part of my analysis of the UK government's Open Standards consultation. As well as...

The increasingly heated debates about the traditionally dull area of computer standards is testimony to the rise of open source. For the ...

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...

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...

Sometimes it seems like I've written the same story about UK government IT plans again and again. You know the one: after years of empty...

One of the ironies of this column, which appears in a UK title, and is about the use of open source software in large enterprises, is that t...

Yesterday I went along to the launch of the next stage of the UK government's open data initiative, which involved releasing information...

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...

This sounds great news for free software (and the world): China recently circulated a draft regulation regarding the use of patents in Chin...

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