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Mozilla Labs are working on the Coop : The Coop will let users keep track of what their friends are doing online, and share new and interes...

Here's a paradigmatic tale : The editors who were fired or resigned over the editorial-independence controversy at the Canadian Medical ...

So EUPL - the European Union Public Licence - is now approved , by the European Commission at least: The Commission has approved the EUPL on...

As I've written elsewhere , licences are not peripheral to free software, they lie at its very heart. So argy-bargy over the new draft...

Aside from its intrinsic interest, there is a good reason for observing closely what happens to content in Australia. Because of the Free T...

This is what we've been waiting for: EMI Music today announced that it is launching new premium downloads for retail on a global basis,...

Now that the code for the Second Life client is available as open source, I wondered who would be the first to offer a how-to. And the winn...

These guys were the new philosophers, and they had discovered a way to be involved in the latest technologies of the day, and not just from ...

A rather fine little speech about ODF and the virtues of openness, made by IBM's Bob Sutor as part of his testimony to the Texas House ...

I've written about one open source car, OSCar , before, and now here's another, with a rather stranger name: C,mm,n. The idea, of c...

Judging by the some articles, everything is now sweetness and light regarding GNU GPLv3, with those big buddies Richard and Linus gazing lan...

If, like me, you somehow didn't make it to the Virtual Worlds 2007 conference, fear not: two reporters with, er, inimitable styles did ...

I had to smile when I saw this piece from the ever-perceptive Andrew Leonard at Salon about English as a global language: This isn't j...

When it comes to digital music, Magnatune is definitely on the side of the angels : We call it "try before you buy." It's the...

...but no action yet : Dell has heard you and we will expand our Linux support beyond our existing servers and Precision workstation line. O...

First it was patents, then copyright, and now it seems the IP mob are trying to pervert trademarks too: it is insane to try and claim a gene...

Regular readers of this blog will know that I have an instinctive suspicion of organisations that try to co-opt weasel words. And now we ha...

SAP AG will not be impacted by open source ERP software, chief executive Henning Kagermann is adamant. Despite evidence of open source creep...

Today is the deadline for submitting a response to the BBC's plans for on-demand services . Full story here .

Previous posts have noted that there is an inherent tension between openness and privacy. That tension is even more acute in the case of su...

Recently HP has been dropping hints about its deep love for GNU/Linux: Hewlett-Packard is closing custom deals for thousands of desktop PCs...

Microsoft getting help from the Mumbai constabulary? Seems a little extreme.... The Mumbai Police has come up with regulations for Cyber C...

At last - someone is trying a new business model for digital music : For the first time fans and Artists can be in business together. Theref...

A little while back I wrote about the Qwaq virtual world system. This is based on the open source Croquet code, which has just released v...

The governing board of the Smithsonian Institution announced Monday that it had accepted the resignation of its top official, Lawrence M. Sm...