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Once again, Bruce is on the money - literally. If you really want to see Microsoft scramble to patch a hole in its software, don't look...

Here's a typically thoughtful meditation from Techdirt that considers ways in which newspapers could usefully embrace not just the Int...

Rob Weir has spotted an interesting fact about Microsoft's implementation of MOOXL compatibility for Office XP, and its relationship to...

The Internet is deeply, deeply broken, it's just that nobody's noticed. Fortunately, the solution is already to hand. Unfortunatel...

One of the under-appreciated qualities of free software is its cross-platform nature. The fact that Firefox and OpenOffice.org are availabl...

... is out .

Well, who could fail to be intrigued by a posting entitled "Ivan Illich and Silence as a Commons"? Especially when it links to a...

One more for the open source ticklist: robotics toolkits. Here's an article explaining what they do and what's available. (Via LX...

Now here's a daft idea : if Linux wants to be taken seriously by the business desktop market, it has to first take itself more seriously...

Who better to write a book called Open Life: The Philosophy of Open Source , than Torvalds? And this book is indeed written by Torvalds - S...

Wise words from Bob Sutor on substitutability: the ability to take one software application from one provider and put in its place another ...

Doug Engelbart is The Man: he invented practically everything clever in recent computing, from the mouse through to hypertext. One of his l...

One of the reasons why free software will ultimately triumph is that it is based on the eminently sensible idea of building on other people...

And talking of Writely , here's a handy round-up of Web-based word processors. I'm pretty pleased with Writely, not least with it...

By now, everyone (well, nearly) knows about ODF support in things like OpenOffice.org, KOffice and Writely. But a name that may not be so w...

I was lucky enough to make a couple of extended visits to India some years back, and I still follow developments there as closely as I can. ...

I hate to gloat (well, not much) but this story about the scrapping of a £141 million computer system by the UK's Department for Work a...

One of the unusual things about the GNU GPL is that it uses traditional law to untraditional things. This means that there's plenty of ...

Well, Linus is Finnish, and hails from Helsinki, and this story is about a Finn in the same fair city. OK, I confess, I choose it for the h...

I've avoided mentioning SpiralFrog until now, since it is such a blatant attempt to be hip in a Web 2.0-ish sort of way, while completel...

There's a fun thread on Thomas Hawk's Digital Connections blog, where people are having a go at Blogger. And quite right too: it...

BIOS: Basic Input/Output System. We rarely give it a thought as we boot up a machine. But it turns out that there's a lot of clutter i...

...and why we need it.

I know, I know, magazines are so twentieth century. This one is different - it's a PDF magazine (OK, so that's worse). But at lea...

For a project that is beginning to assume an ever-greater importance in the intellectual landscape (to say nothing of the online landscape),...