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There's nothing new about companies deciding to open source their products and make money in other ways. But it's still good to com...

I came across this story about Google winning an award as part of the "Captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy" taking part in the suit...

It was 15 years ago today that Linus made his first Usenet posting , to the comp.os.minix newsgroup. This is how it began: Hello everybody...

The concept of "openness" has featured fairly heavily in these posts - not surprisingly, given the title of this blog. But this c...

The OpenScience Project is interesting. As its About page explains: The OpenScience project is dedicated to writing and releasing free an...

I have always been fascinated by search engines. Back in March 1995, I wrote a short feature about the new Internet search engines - variou...

One of the nuggets that I gathered from reading the book Naked Conversations is that there are relatively few bloggers in Germany. So I wa...

And talking of the commons, I was pleased to find that the Pinko Marketing Manifesto has acquired the tag "commons-based unmarketing...

Everywhere I go these days, I seem to come across the commons. The Creative Commons is the best known, but the term refers to anything hel...

I wrote about Riya.com a month ago; now it's out in beta, so you can try out its face recognition technology. I did , and was intrigu...

Good to see Andy Updegrove's blog getting Slashdotted . This is good news not just for him, but also for his argument , which is that ...

Further proof that things are starting to bubble: small but interesting ideas like microformats pop up out of nowhere (well, for me, at lea...

There's a very interesting article in this week's Nature , as part of its 2020 Computing Special (which miraculously is freely avai...

I'm currently reading Naked Conversations (sub-title: "how blogs are changing the way businesses talk with customers"). It...

It seems appropriate that a book about digital libraries has migrated to an online version that is freely available. Digital Libraries - f...

There was an amusing story in Groklaw yesterday, detailing the sorry end of utterly pointless legal action taken against the Free Software ...

In case you hadn't noticed, there's been a bit of a kerfuffle over a posting that a Firefox 2.0 alpha had been released. However,...

Let me count the ways. List blog The original: lots and lots of links to things with no theme but their sum. Diary blog The other original ...

The Economist is a strange beast. It has a unique writing style, born of the motto "simplify, then exaggerate"; and it has an un...

The news that a judge has ordered Google to turn over all emails from a Gmail account, including deleted messages, has predictably sent a s...

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has announced the latest round of meg...

Many people were amazed back in 2004 when Microsoft released its first open source software, Windows Installer XML (WiX). But this was onl...

It is striking how everybody is talking about Web 2.0, and yet nobody seems to mention e-commerce 2.0. In part, this is probably because fe...

The only thing separating mankind from a pandemic that could kill 150 million people are a few changes in the RNA of the H5N1 avian 'fl...

Talking of the Open University, here's an interesting research report from them on the UK Government's plans to introduce ID cards...