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I wrote a little about the Guardian 's campaign to obtain open access to Government-generated data (which we pay for), but here's ...

A little while back, when I was musing upon e-commerce 2.0, I mentioned Chinesepod.com . Now I've gone the whole hog, interviewing th...

Everybody talks about "free as in beer" versus "free as in freedom". Now somebody has taken this literally: free as in ...

Ha!

Someone who has clearly had their brain frazzled by the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field . Not opening up DRM is a win ? Well, maybe f...

Great meditation on water as a commons - and how we need to change the way companies are allowed to "graze" this commons for prof...

Wandering around Technorati, I came across Novell's Open PR blog . Mere PR PR? Maybe not, since there are comments from real people -...

If you were wondering, then perhaps the Open Knowledge Foundation might be able to help. They have come up with an Open Knowledge Definiti...

Net neutrality - the idea that the underlying technologies of the Internet should never care or even know about the details of who you are o...

This paper , with the title "Open Access" and its Social Context: New Colonialism in the Making? has to take the biscuit for one ...

This is how the world ends, not with a bang - not with a clash of titans - but with a whimper, in an obscure WIPO committee. The committee...

Sad to see a once-great company joining the IP Bully Club, using dubious logic and bad law in an attempt to shut out competition. Hint: th...

Given the convergence of thinking about the digital and analogue commons that is taking place, the news that EarthTrends is releasing its o...

The term "open content" is applied almost universally to materials that are freely available to varying degrees. Its origins der...

The thought-provoking Against Monopoly blog makes an interesting contrast : copyright bad, trademark good. Not quite sure where a copyrigh...

McNealy leaving Sun is certainly the end of an era. But the big question is: what follows? As far as Jonathan Schwartz is concerned, too m...

The facts behind the UK cracker who ill-advisedly decided to break into Pentagon systems just gets more and more bizarre. The main issue is...

A nice story in PC World (via Engadget ) about a way to pool WiFi connections with a neighbour so as to boost throughput for both. Now, i...

Microsoft has been suprisingly good in its Firefox support recently - until this came along. If you use Firefox, do make sure you pay them...

There are lots of moral reasons why academics should support open access. But there is also an extremely strong pragmatic one : their work ...

The looming storm ...?

An interesting story in The New York Times about the courtroom battle between the EU and Microsoft. It makes beautifully clear how one hu...

One of the heartening things is how I keep coming across blogs that are broadly pushing for the same things as this one, even if they come a...

The name Nathan Myhrvold probably doesn't strike fear into your heart; it may not even be known to you. But one day, rest assured, he w...

One of the statistics most often trotted out to demonstrate open source's rise and reach is Apache's total dominance of the public W...