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Maybe I'm an incorrigible optimist, but these look hopeful signs : The U.S. Supreme Court made it easier to challenge patents for failin...

It's striking that more and more DRM-free sites are starting to achieve prominence - and, one hopes, profitability. Here's another,...

The bad news : we recognise and share the strength of feeling on platform neutrality. We do not consider it practicable to offer catch-up te...

I commented before that I thought Rufus Pollock's use of the term "atomisation" in the context of open content didn't qui...

The dogs are barking on C|net again: focus on one major problem: Will content companies, such as movie, music and book producers, and those...

Well, it already does with its online office suite, but now it lets you search for ODF files and displays converted online: In addition to ...

I seem to recall that Darl McBride, the man behind SCO's suicidal strategy of suing IBM, once received a box of worms as a token of dis...

You probably don't realise it, but the Internet is a dinosaur. More specially, the Internet numbering system is palaeolithic, and needs...

Second Life gets an upgrade: sculpted prims . Q: What is a sculpted prim? A: A "sculpted prim" is a prim whose shape is determined...

You don't normally expect museums to be open source, not least because they are rather keen on preventing visitors from modifying their ...

There's a wonderful story in the entertainment industry's local rag, Variety : Young people prefer to download film and music illeg...

This is bad enough : Each year, WIPO and its Member States celebrate World Intellectual Property Day with activities, events and campaigns. ...

...or rather, god bless the Spyware Act currently being pondered in the US. Why, you may ask? How can something as laudable as anti-spywar...

Virtual gizmos , of course: Nissan will be the first automotive company to provide Second Life residents access to the open-source codes use...

It's been an open secret that IBM was working on its own virtual world platform, but details are now beginning to emerge : IBM said its...

Although I'm not particularly interested in the kind of consumer stuff he mostly writes about, I do have quite a lot of time for Walt Mo...

As regular readers may have noticed, I'm not a big fan of Flash. But news that Adobe is open-sourcing Flex, its development framework...

Sounds heavy : OASIS, the international standards consortium, today announced that its members have approved Web Services Context (WS-Contex...

Well, no, not really: actually, it's much more impressive : Quakr is a project to build a 3-dimensional world from user contributed phot...

So let's get this straight : What got really interesting was when Yusseri raised the issue of OOXML and why didn't Microsoft just wo...

This is cool : further proof not only that patents in general, and software patents in particular are stupid, but that at least some VCs are...

What were they thinking ? The European Parliament today accepted the IP Criminal Measures directive after its first reading in a vote of 374...

Gasp! Eben 's moving on : More than anything else, however, this is a moment to focus on the new. SFLC is a wonderful place to work, for...

A criticism sometimes levelled at users of open source who make changes to the code but do not distribute it is that they don't give it ...

One of GNU/Linux's unique properties is its ability to run on dozens of platforms (whereas Windows runs on precisely one, that of Intel...