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Recently, I was writing about science and open source (of which more anon); here are some thoughts on why maths ought to be taught using f...

Back in November I was urging you to submit your views on a consultation document on the role of copyright in the knowledge economy, put out...

What a travesty of democracy: Alors que le vote n'était pas prévu avant la semaine prochaine, les quelques députés présents à l'hém...

This story is everywhere today: Internet traffic in Sweden fell by 33% as the country's new anti-piracy law came into effect, reports s...

As Peter Suber rightly points out , this paper offers a reversal of the usual argument, where open access is justified by analogy with open...

Two years ago, the virtual world Second Life was everywhere, as pundits and press alike rushed to proclaim it as the Next Big Digital Thing....

As you may have heard, there's been a bit of a to-do over a new “Open Cloud Manifesto.” Here's the central idea: The industry needs ...

Asterisk, a PBX, telephony engine, and telephony applications toolkit, is one of open source best-kept secrets. As with many open source pro...

Well, the question as to how the great Microsoft vs. TomTom suit would finish has been answered: Microsoft and TomTom announced on Monday th...

Again, open source reaches ever-new bits : The new MAA Documentation System combines open-source technologies with deep social computing pri...

Last week I was urging you to write to a particular set of MEPs about proposed changes to the Telecoms Package, which is wending its slow w...

What was Richard Stallman's greatest achievement? Some might say it's Emacs, one of the most powerful and adaptable pieces of softwa...

This is utterly scandalous : Not content with destroying the world’s economies, the banking industry is also bent on ruining us individually...

Another classic post from Mike Masnick about the absurdities our current copyright regime visits upon us: PRS has now threatened a woman wh...

As I wrote earlier today, things are looking bad for the Internet in Europe. But the European Parliament continues to do its bit protectin...

WIPO has just published a study entitled Dissemination of Patent Information. I've not read it, but here's someone who has, with ...

If open knowledge is your thing, London is the place, Saturday the time: The Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) is back for its fourth insta...

Things seem to be going from bad to worse with the EU's Telecoms Package . Now, not only do we have to contend with French attempts to ...

With apologies for returning to the theme of patents, I'd like to direct your attention to a long and interesting piece that has appeare...

Another impressive line-up of mega-academics denouncing the lack of logic for the proposed copyright extension currently being considered in...

Here are two interesting stories: First , the government wants children to use social networking sites like Twitter: Children will no longer...

As well as being a great coder, RMS is a fine writer (he made a number of excellent suggestions when I sent him rough drafts of the relevant...

As I've written elsewhere today, there's a lot of activity happening around software patents at the moment. One forum where they...

It seems appropriate on Ada Lovelace Day to note the move of one of the best-known female champions of open source from Intel to the startup...

Yesterday I was writing about the latest moves in the TomTom saga, and its involvement with the Open Invention Network patent commons. But b...