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British-based music industry umbrella the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is now rapidly acquiring the reputation the ...

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A few months ago, I had the temerity to suggest the following: Definitions matter. If you want to see why, compare the worlds of open sourc...

You may remember that a little while back there was a bit of a kerfuffle about the BBC's decision to go with a Microsoft-based DRM solut...

It was exactly 15 years ago that the Web was made free : Heute vor 15 Jahren erhielten Tim Berners-Lee und Robert Cailliau vom Genfer Kernfo...

Oh look, yet another reason *not* to upgrade to Vista: The third service pack for XP gives you all the Windows XP performance updates, secu...

You can't make this stuff up: Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic dat...

One part of the world that has always fascianted me is Armenia. It's an ancient civilisation, but one that today finds itself in a pret...

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Here's a nice meditation from Science Commons' John Wilbanks on openness, access and innovation, which includes the following thou...

In the spirit of passing on vaguely useful information, I notice that LWN.net has put together a handy master index of external contributor...

This is something that I've thought a good idea for a while; now, it seems to be taking shape : SPARC Europe (Scholarly Publishing and A...

During the writing of Rebel Code I had the privilege of talking to nearly all of the world's top hackers. Among those, Donald Knuth is...

Embedded systems are something of an iceberg: most of the activity is happening invisibly, so it's easy to overlook how far Linux has c...

Lost in the deluge of GNU/Linux ultraportable announcements? Me too. Here's a consolidate list that might help.

Here's a droll piece about poor, little unloved intellectual monopolies: At the highest level, there are those who no longer believe th...

Hardly, with a quarterly profit of $4.39 billion, but this is interesting : Sales in the division selling Office and other business applicat...

Here's a piece about cloud computing that ask a pertinent question: Why isn't the world's biggest and most powerful software co...

It's the new buzzword : Yahoo Inc. is swinging the doors of its Web platforms wide open to let outside developers create applications ac...

Some impressive official stats about open source use in Canada: "Open source" software is rising in popularity, according to surv...

That's what will soon be reality, according to this : until the end of this year there will be already 29,000 labs deployed, serving app...

Seems so: I was looking to see what search sites might have a particular bug that I (ahem) came across and was trying the search for the nu...

I was worrying that Google's Summer of Code might be fizzling out. Happily, it seems that things are fine: Google Summer of Code 2008...

Russia is one of the countries I try to follow as closely as I can in terms of free software because it is both (a) potentially a huge marke...

On my other gig, at Computerworld UK, there's now a handy page bringing together the growing collection of interviews with open source ...