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I'm not a huge fan of Tim O'Reilly's position on free software, which seems to be that code exists primarily as a business oppo...

Baby steps : The economics of the new commons is still in its infancy. It is too soon to be confident about its hypotheses. But it may yet p...

This looks bad: Open source software names such as Joomla!, Drupal, WordPress and Linux are now alongside large proprietary software firms ...

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* Really * living it: In a world not known for its epic romances, ChrisandTara used to be Web 2.0’s version of Brangelina. They lived togeth...

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Chris Anderson bravely tries to put a figure on the value of the "free economy" - those businesses that use free as part of their...

Of all the complaints about open source - there's no support, poor security, lack of a business model etc. etc. - the one that still has...

One of the things I like about Roy Schestowitz's Boycott Novell site is the way it brings back the Golden Oldies - statements from docu...

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Nice summary here : With high up front costs and (relatively) low marginal costs, textbook publishing is like other media: the big winners a...

Marc Fleury has already written computer history once when he set up JBoss with a new model of holding all the copyright in the code - hithe...

Apparently : "The government aims to provide 10-dollar laptops to students and research in this direction is on," said D Purandesh...

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One of the problems with handling the issue of greenhouse gases is getting countries to accep their responsibilities. The difficulty is tha...

As so often, I'm with Matt on this one: good as he was when the Fake Steve jobs, Dan Lyons is even better as himself. This is particul...

Wow, there are some clever bunnies up at the EPO these days. Try this for size: Relying on a well-known and widely used definition, a comp...

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In Digital Code of Life , I explained at length - some would say at excessive length - how the Human Genome Project was a key early demonstr...

Oh look, you start down the slippery path of declaring war on abstract nouns, and you end up with pusillanimous mindlessness like this: An ...

I don't use Skype much, so news that it probably has a backdoor that lets others (hello, secret services) eavesdrop doesn't much co...

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I've long known that the Korean governmnet is pretty benighted when it comes to *insisting* that people use ActiveX in order to interact...

Rather, a home-grown one with some nice touches: The webbook is manufactured by the UK electronics company Elonex and is being sold exclusi...

OpenSim. the open source platform based on Second Life's protocols, is shaping up nicely. Here's more evidence of intelligent life...