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This is rich : House of Commons officials have today called in the police to hunt down the mole who leaked details of MPs expenses. The parl...

One of the central themes of this blog is that the openness that powers the continuing rise and success of open source can be applied to mos...

Oh, look, what a surprise: the UK government's plans implement a European human rights ruling that the "blanket" retention of ...

Interesting to see Microsoft jumping on the openness bandwagon again - specifically, on the open government bandwagon: The Open Government ...

Somebody clearly doesn't understand open source: Despite a mission to make the games as financially and environmentally sustainable as ...

Not my words, but those of a certain Viviane Reding (NB: MS Word document ): The fourth element I would like to underline is the recognitio...

Yesterday I was praising Red Hat's submission to the EPO in its pondering of the patentability of software. Today, it's the FSFE...

One of the unique features of free software is that it can be forked. Indeed, it is one of the most powerful incentives for projects to hew ...

It seems that one of the main architects of the disgrace that is the Telecoms Package is the UK MEP Malcolm Harbour. Here's an indicati...

Remember how those magic ID cards would provide strong forms of identity, thus protecting us against terrorists, people traffickers et al.? ...

Here's a nasty meme that's beginning to swirl around: Microsoft (MSFT) is about to finally consummate a search deal with Yahoo -- a...

A few weeks ago, Leo Babauta published a great post entitled "Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (or, the Privatization of the English Lan...

Six months ago I noted that the European Patent Office had embarked upon a fairly abstruse process.... On Open Enterprise blog .

Believe it or not, this saga isn't over, and things are going badly again. The Open Rights Group has a good detailed summary of what...

One of the more laughable reasons that traditional science publishers cite in their attempts to rubbish open access is that it's somehow...

This is what the virus really looks like: 1 atgaaggcaa tactagtagt tctgctatat acatttgcaa ccgcaaatgc agacacatta 61 tgtataggtt ...

A question that often comes up is why people blog and twitter. I've given various answers over the years, but once again Mike Masnick s...

As I wrote two years ago, one of the most worrying aspects of bird flu (remember that?) was that virus sequences were not being shared well...

I've written a number of times about Spain's use of free software, notably at the provincial level. There's even a handy - if r...

If you want to see how misguided the British publishing industry's attitudes are to copyright and its users, you could do worse than rea...

For those of us that believe that openness is good for governments (and good for us), the question becomes: how can we encourage government ...

I came across this fascinating piece about how the Tibetan exile community not only keeps going in the face of China's unbending occupa...

Richard Stallman has always regarded free software as about freedom, and hence inherently political. And so it's no surprise that many ...

Remember Open Office XML – a name chosen to be as confusingly close to OpenOffice XML as possible – better known as OOXML? Remember how just...

Here's some interesting news on the European patent front: Preliminary figures from the European Patent Office (EPO) reveal that the nu...