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I was about to write a long and passionate post imploring you to contact your MEPs one last time in order to get them to sign up to the impo...

It's a red letter day here on Computerworld UK, for the open source section just gained an important new strand in the form of Simon Say...

One of the many sad aspects of Sun's disappearance into the maw of Oracle is that many will see this as “proof” that its strategy of bui...

Yesterday I popped into part of the London Open Source Forum. This was a laudable effort organised by Red Hat in conjunction with some of it...

It's really heartening to see this openness/transparency meme blooming everywhere. But the forces of ignorance are fighting a rearguard...

Words matter, which is why one of the shrewdest moves was the labelling of copyright infringement - an act that, when carried out by individ...

...And probably didn't want to. Thanks to that nice Mr Mark Surman, I have been not only tagged but also subjected to fiendishly-cleve...

Simon Phipps points out the centrality of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: This document is one of the most important documents c...

I want one , too .

Wikis were born under the Hawaiian sun (well, the name was), so perhaps it's appropriate that Sun should have set up its own wikis , in ...

Free !

Simon Phipps has some interesting numbers relating to open source in Asia: It seems that a few years ago, more than 95% of the software mar...

Simon Phipps writes : The news is that a full Java developer stack with tools is available from today in the Multiverse repository for Ubunt...

Simon Phipps raises an important point : what should be done about corporate blog pages when their owner has, er, passed on (as in to anothe...

Ayo, this brings back too many memories of punched cards at midnight: Sun Microsystems took a new open-source step this week, enlisting the...

I've written elsewhere about my pleasant surprise at Sun choosing the GNU GPL for Java. But an obvious question that follows on from t...

DRM is one of the central themes that has been weaving in and out of many of my posts here; this well-written piece from Sun's Simon Ph...