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Here's some interesting commentary on my recent post about Apache's declining market share in the Netcraft survey: The Netcraft nu...

Do not miss this fascinating paper , which looks at spooky parallels between today's patent trolls, and what were called "patent sh...

Not really my patch, but I'd expected better from NYC : But the market for Ipé wood drives much of the industrial logging of the entire ...

Well, here's an interesting confluence of two of my pet hates: By adopting Adobe Flash Player software, the BBC will make its free catc...

I've written before about how those selling content need to pay more attention to the packaging; it looks like the Vatican has got the m...

I too noticed that Auntie was off making the tea , yesterday: For several hours on Thursday afternoon, the front page of the BBC News websit...

Certainly looks like it: Apache loses 2.8% share this month, partly through the strong growth at the major blogging systems, and partly due...

We are so used to the Cathedral and the Bazaar story of how the open source methodology succeeds that it is easy to forget that it can fail...

FROG - FRee Online druG 3D conformation generator - is not a program I was aware of, but it sounds pretty cool : Frog is an on-line service...

Because of its hooks into the rest of the stack, Exchange is one of the key programs for turning companies into Microsoft shops, so this co...

Here's an interesting straw in the wind: I just got a chance to try out a Webware PC: a computer built around the new P5E3 Deluxe/WiFi-...

People often wonder why the open source development process works - why hackers selflessly code for the greater good. There are obviously l...

Good to see an eminent writer getting it: It's not just that the idea of copyrighting an entry in the English dictionary, or someone...

Just to be on the safe side, you understand : A Brussels think-tank has accused the US government of reneging on commitments made to the Wor...

I'm making a promise to myself, and now to you, to reverse this trend. The future of journalism, not just newspapers, depends upon such ...

If the Creative Commons licences are all Greek to you, try this .

Interviews are a great way to get the background to important areas, but too often they concentrate on the big names (and I'm guiltier t...

Or so it says : We're introducing this type of open source aggregation into the new magazine, with blog items, quotes, and content from ...

Well, that nice Mr. Ballmer did warn us, and here it is: Plaintiffs, IP Innovation L.L.C. and Technology Licensing Corporation (collectivel...

I was interested to read Vic Keegan's column in the Guardian today: This week I bumped into a number of people who had no office to go...

One of the canards about open source is that it lacks apps, particularly for vertical markets. While that may have been true ten or even fi...

The story about a large-scale implementation of GNU/Linux systems in Russian schools surfaced recently, but it was all rather vague, so I di...

Well, not quite, but a handy page of links to info about the Open Data Commons licence. (Via Simon Phipps .)

Or rather, Madonna! - another one : Pop star Madonna is close to leaving her long-time Warner Bros. Records label for a wide-ranging $US120...

FOSS.IN is "India's premier FOSS event" (well, that's what they say.) So this is a brave move: As we had explained, over...