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A straw in the digital wind? Today, the Computer and Communications Industry Association -- a group representing companies including Google...

PLoS ONE celebrates its first anniversary: The initial success of PLoS ONE is something unprecedented in scientific publishing. It has been...

The Acer Aspire 5710Z has gone on sale in Singapore pre-loaded with Ubuntu Linux instead of Windows. Ubuntu is currently one of the world...

In a move that seems like a great model of public and private cooperation, the National Archives and Amazon.com have reached a pact under wh...

If you ever had any doubts about how amazingly wonderful the open source modelling package Blender was, take a peep at these highly impressi...

Yesterday I wrote about Knuth's wise words on software patents. In the course of trying to discover when exactly they were written (an...

We went public with Lughenjo four weeks ago, primarily to test our idea on a wider audience. Since then we have continued our conversations ...

Hey, music industry, I think the people formerly known as the audience are trying to tell you something : Now in its fourth year, the survey...

If computing has a patron saint, it is the great and amazing Donald Knuth . Put another way, he is the god of computer algorithms, so I was...

How mad is this ? Advanced European countries are increasingly looking for channels to school their neighbours and worldwide free-trade agre...

This is why it is utterly pointless for the BBC to go to all the trouble of wrapping DRM around its content - note, *its* content, not other...

Here's a worrying development over in the Mozilla community: Mozilla has been supporting Thunderbird as a product since the beginning o...

Extraordinary column in BusinessWeek : While Microsoft leads in India and China, Linux is mounting a strong challenge in both nations. The ...

As the post below indicates, one reason that open content strategies are working is that online advertising is increasingly profitable (just...

One of the constant themes of this blog is that there's plenty of money to be made by giving away things for free. Here's an intere...

Bring on the opens: here's a new foundation to support OpenBSD, the Cinderella of the open world, and a few other worthy projects: The ...

We all know that the ideas behind open source are out of this world, and now here's the proof : Space enthusiast and engineer Paul Woost...

Here's double good news : SugarCRM Inc., the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) s...

One of the most compelling applications of open content is in the educational sphere. After all, it's crazy for teachers to keep on cre...

I was pleased to see that the story about Prince giving away CDs in various ways, and making money from live performances, is starting to g...

I've always felt rather ambivalent about Tim O'Reilly. On the one hand, he is undoubtedly a very shrewd reader of markets, and has ...

Will this response from the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport go down in history as the great turning point for copyright, when th...

Programs are sets of instructions - rather like recipes. So if you can have open source code, why not open source food : Open Source Food c...

The enterprise content management company Alfesco has cropped up a few times on these pages. It's increasingly clear to me that it is ...

As I and a few other enlightened individuals have been banging on about for some time, allowing digital files to be copied is not the end of...