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In a significant announcement , the Creative Commons organisation has said that it is retiring the Developing Nations licence: The Developin...

Now this is what I call a real distribution network: The London Book Project is a free book exchange on a massive scale. Using the London U...

Well, it looks like the world of free software can cross another company off its Christmas card list: Microsoft and Linux distributor Xandr...

I'm not the world's biggest fan of Guy Kawasaki, but these figures about his new Truemors site are interesting, not least this one...

How's this for a stunning demonstration that the UK Government has something to hide on ID cards? Treasury officials are ordering the i...

Bill Hooker points out that there is an important petition to establish a self-archiving open access mandate for Brazilian research circul...

...With openness and much, much else. Spread the word .

Is this perhaps one answer to open source war/criminality? Waleli's idea is to harness the power of picture messaging (MMS) to catch th...

Having problems getting your head around that tricky concept of DRM? Try this . (Via Boing Boing .)

The final draft of the GNU GPLv3 is out, together with copious explanations . If it's just a little too copious, you might try Matthew...

So Jim Watson's genome will soon be made public . But not all of it: the only deliberate omission from Watson's sequence is that of...

Well, since I've criticised my old employer Reed-Elsevier in the past for having blood on its corporate hands through its involvement i...

Virtual Windows systems are familiar enough, but how about this: LINA , a virtual GNU/Linux environment? With LINA, a single executable writ...

This is really cool. A little while back I wrote about Ed Felten's generator of 128-bit numbers. Lots of people were using this to ...

Gears is a browser extension that we hope -- with time and plenty of input and collaboration from outside of Google -- can make not just our...

For all you Brits out there, something to ponder and then expatiate upon (nicely, mind): OpenXML is an ECMA standard which has been submitt...

Sigh . Tell me again why people are still using Internet Explorer: It turns out the link installs a malicious post logger that transmits al...

The virtual tracks left by people as they change jobs delineate the shifting patterns of the business world: a concentration towards or away...

Thanks , Luke: I may well borrow that one....

As patent problems become ever-more prevalent in computing, it's important to emphasise that not only are they innappropriate for softwa...

I knew that I knew nothing about aQuantive. Here, for example, is something rather important that I didn't know I didn't know: Inf...

I like reading Nicholas Carr's stuff because it is often provocative and generally thought-provoking. A good example is his recent ...

Interesting : Today UK regulator Ofcom released its review of the ~750 responses it received during a public consultation earlier this year ...

Altruism, which lies at the heart of true openness, is hard-wired, it seems : The results were showing that when the volunteers placed the i...

Google's story that it's really, really, really not competing with Microsoft gets thinner by the day. Apparently , it's just bo...