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Being a rigorous sort of chap, I was sceptical about folksonomies - ad-hoc tags. But over time I've come to appreciate their power - an...

Printer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard has announced that the German Supreme Court ruled in a hearing that the firm will not have to pay a fla...

On the Open Enterprise blog .

On the Open Enterprise blog . (Henceforth, for those who might be interested, I'll be posting simple links to entries on my new Open Ent...

Here's a company with a death-wish : SEAGATE'S latest batch of drives are not compatible with the Open Sauce operating system Linux....

As I noted below , ISO has some serious problems. The solution? Open up : The vision of OpenISO.org is to become a truly open internationa...

This is an extraordinary testimony to the havoc wrought by Microsoft on parts of ISO through its attempts to get OOXML (aka ECMA 376) fast-...

When the Gowers review of copyright in the UK came out I was ambivalent : there was some good things, but also areas that were potentially p...

As I've noted before, I'm something of a connoisseur of FUD, and I really like coming across new examples. Here's one , direct...

I write about commons a lot here - digital commons, analogue commons - and about how we can nurture them. Whales form a commons, and one th...

I have commented here and elsewhere that the new category of ultra-light portables using flash memory represents a huge opportunity for GN...

DRM is normally viewed as an issue in the world of digital content, which can be duplicated losslessly. But in this virtuosic post , Mike M...

Sun has released some more details of its forthcoming Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program: which will foster innovation and rec...

This was new to me: Carrot2 is an Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine. It can automatically organize (cluster) search results into...

Or rather, not just *any* old open source blog, but a new gig for me, called Open Enterprise : I'll be looking at all levels of the ente...

Ted Ts'o is not widely known outside hacker circles, and yet he has played an important role in the development of Linux right from the ...

I came across this gem from the BBC Internet blog: Even the beleaguered iPlayer – forget the issues, who can quibble that in making virtual...

Mike Masnick spots a nasty new trend: trying to create "copyright-like" regulations on what you can do with non-information goods...

It's becoming fashionable to stick the epithet "open" on just about anything days (I should know - I do it all the time.) But...

I seem to be one of the few people in the known universe that (a) does not have an iPhone and (b) does not want one. So I don't really ...

Not simply being closed, but something like this : If I make a computer security mistake — in a book, for a consulting client, at BT — it’s ...

News that Verizon Wireless will support Google's Android after all is obviously welcome: In yet another sudden shift, Verizon Wireless ...

So Germany has decided to live in the past : Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe's largest telephone company, can block buyers of Apple Inc....

I've written about the idea of treating radio spectrum as a commons - something owned by no one, but available for the use of all - subj...

I'm in favour of fun as much as the next clown, but the new book Eccentric Cubicle from O'Reilly seems to be forgetting a key aspec...