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CollabNet has a fascinating history that goes back to 1999, when Collab.Net launched SourceXchange: a site where companies can post proposal...

As this amazing chart shows, there are basically three great families of GNU/Linux distros: those based on Red Hat, Slackware and Debian. Th...

Great post by Tim O'Reilly about how we need to junk the idea that the economy can expand indefinitely, and move to a different system ...

I like the sound of this : the digital revolution that has been undermining in-depth reportage may be ready to give something back, through ...

I don't always agree with Tim O'Reilly's views, but it seems clear to me that this is his best, and potentially most important p...

I'm not a huge fan of Tim O'Reilly's position on free software, which seems to be that code exists primarily as a business oppo...

Now, where have I heard this before? Today it costs only $300,000 to sequence a person's DNA, and the $100,000 benchmark is in sight. I...

Once again, Matt gets it, and Tim doesn't: "I will predict that virtually every open source company (including Red Hat) will e...

I've always felt rather ambivalent about Tim O'Reilly. On the one hand, he is undoubtedly a very shrewd reader of markets, and has ...

Good point here about a big problem with the apparently welcome Peer to Patent project: Helping patent trolls with their QA is like going ...

I thought I knew open access history pretty well, but to my shame I seem to overlooked Melissa Hagemann : Hagemann's strategic, behind-...