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Cambridge University is celebrating its 800th anniversary in 2009. The official history tells the tale of the buildings; but what about the ...

Here's a useful post on what's happening with regards to open source in the Middle East: A good news for the open source scene. Two...

Guildford is not famous for being a hotbed of open source, but that's where the British open source company Volantis is based. It's ...

Here's an interesting site I'd missed : Today we are launching "Microsoft on the Issues" to open another, more direct lin...

The Canadian Government has put out a "Request For Information" ( RFI ) - essentially, a formal invitation for feedback on the top...

At the end of last year I wrote about a big Brazilian project to provide 150,000 GNU/Linux notebooks for schools. Now the Brazilian Minist...

One of the most powerful forces in free software is the community behind the code. Its potential can be seen most clearly in the Spread Fire...

If there were ever a region that could benefit immensely from open source, it is Africa. And yet South Africa aside, not much seems to be h...

I think I may have come up with a possible solution for spam. But first, some background. On Open Enterprise blog .

We need openness everything - even in banks : It would feature radical transparency: full disclosure of performance and compensation. The gr...

Is Joi Ito barking ? In the future according to Ito: "Every object on the Internet will have a licence and copyright information and th...

Flatworld , a open textbook publishing company, has finally come out of private beta. Here's what makes it different : We preserve the ...

Maths is a famously lonely discipline - I should know, having spent three years of my life grappling with a single equation (the equation wo...

“Digital Britain” sounds like one of those embarrassingly feeble attempts to make dull things trendy, like “Cool Britannia” a few years ago....

An adware author explains : Most adware targets Internet Explorer (IE) users because obviously they’re the biggest share of the market. In a...

Montegancedo Observatory is the first free open access astronomical observatory in the world. It is located in Building 6 of the School of C...

Words matter, which is why one of the shrewdest moves was the labelling of copyright infringement - an act that, when carried out by individ...

One of the central fallacies in the argument that sharing is bad for business is the idea that every file downloaded is a sale lost. In fac...

Netbooks have been one of the surprise successes over the last year. They have also been one of the most contentious areas of computing. The...

One of the interesting applications of openness has been to education. The potential is plain: why re-invent the wheel when it comes to cre...

As I've noted before, free software stands in an odd relationship with the law that governs it. On the one hand, free software could no...

One of the most valuable functions of the concept of "the commons" is that it reframes the terms in which we think of resources. ...

Evidence that open source and the more general concept of openness is becoming trendy: the politicians are bandying them around again. There...

As this amazing chart shows, there are basically three great families of GNU/Linux distros: those based on Red Hat, Slackware and Debian. Th...

The eagle-eyed among you (everyone, surely), will have noticed the sudden excrudescence of a widget to the right. Since this represents the...