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I missed this when it first came out a couple of weeks ago: Der Bundesrat hat am 20.2.2009 dem Gesetz zur Sicherung von Beschäftigung und S...

The UK government is fast turning into the digital villain of Europe as far as the Internet is concerned. Not content with monitoring every...

Remember SCO? It's a once-important company that developed a death-wish by suing IBM in 2003. As Wikipedia explains... On Open Enterpris...

...but there is this : Police are targeting thousands of political campaigners in surveillance operations and storing their details on a dat...

Here's a nice little thought-piece from Chris Messina: The people within Facebook not only believe in what they’re doing but are on the...

One of the most contentious areas in computing is whether open source is more or less secure than closed source systems. Open source is open...

It's been evident for some time that Brazil is a real powerhouse of open source. Now it's moving to the next level: exporting its...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Microsoft's suit against TomTom, which alleged infringement of eight of its patents - including thre...

I like Twitter, but I feel rather guilty about using it , since it's hardly open source. Of course, there's Laconi.ca , which is no...

If you thought all that anti-net neutrality stuff was just for Yanks, think again: they're trying to sneak it over here, too: Telcos ar...

There have been a number of important cases on both sides of the Atlantic concerning the patenting of software recently. In the UK, there we...

CollabNet has a fascinating history that goes back to 1999, when Collab.Net launched SourceXchange: a site where companies can post proposal...

Ever heard of Lake Balkhash? Me neither. But now might be a good time to get to know it - before it disappears like the Aral Sea: Lake Ba...

One of the most important and earliest pieces of legislation concerning digital information is the Data Protection Act (DPA). Clause 152 of ...

This is so depressing : There should be no new exemption from copyright law for users' adaptations of copyright-protected content, the U...

There's increasing hand wringing over the fact that revenues at dead-tree newspapers are diving, leading to redundancies, and loss of th...

One of the reasons Twitter has taken off and become so popular (at least amongst sad people such as myself with nothing better to do) is th...

One of the sure signs that open source is taking hold in computing is that it is spreading far beyond its heartland, the datacentre. Smartph...

Someone's managed : it was recently revealed that rock gods Aerosmith have made more money off of their crummy co-branded version of Gui...

If you were looking for a sign of the times in computing, you could do worse than consider the trajectory of Scott McNealy. When he was runn...

...of the Coroners and Justice Bill (currently being debated in Parliament): it's not just bad, it's diablolically bad, because it l...

Open source is an outsider, not part of the establishment. One price it pays for this is not being privy to all the decisions that are made ...

As a kind of pint-sized free software fidei defensor I feel obliged to counter some of the misconceptions that are put about on the subject ...

It's been in the air for ages, and now it's happening : Microsoft filed suit against TomTom today, alleging that the in-car navigati...

That's almost before it's come into existence: The breaches of the Customer Information System (CIS), which is run by the Departmen...