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For me, Sony has always been the antithesis of open source. So this comes as something of a shock: Sony Pictures Imageworks, the award-winn...

Wow, here's a really great article about identity management from, um, er, Microsoft. Actually, it's a rather remarkable Microsoft...

A new site with the self-explanatory name of "Open source cognitive science" has an interesting opening post about Tools for Psy...

Here's a wonderful demonstration that the simple fact of transparency can dramatically alter outcomes - and, in this case, save lives: ...

Great interview with Mr Open Innovation, Eric von Hippel, who has these wise words of advice: It is true that the most rapidly developing d...

Words matter, which is why the RIAA has always framed copyright infringement in terms of "piracy". But it has a big problem: most...

Great to see a scientist come out with this in an interesting post entitled "What, exactly, is Open Science?": granting access to...

For anyone that might be interested, my keynote from the recent Gran Canaria Desktop Summit is now online as an Ogg video.

And so it starts to come out : Microsoft is angling to work on India’s national identity card project, Mr. Gates said, and he will be meetin...

A little while back, I wrote a post called " Why the GNU GPL Still Matters ". I was talking in general terms, and didn't real...

To change the world, it is not enough to have revolutionary ideas: you also have the inner force to be able to realise them in the face of n...

I love this argument : Arguments against software patents have a fundamental flaw. As any electrical engineer knows, solutions to problems i...

One of the reasons I wrote my book Digital Code of Life was that the battle between the public Human Genome Project and the privately-funde...

One of the great things about openness is that it lets people do incredible things by adding to it in a multiplicity of ways. The beatuy is...

I knew the British Library was losing its way, but this is ridiculous : The British Library Business & IP Centre at St Pancras, London c...

As long-suffering readers of this blog will know, I refer to patents and copyrights as intellectual monopolies because, well, that's wha...

This sounds like a great move : It’s a recession. Save the $200,000 you were going to spend on that Harvard education and check out some of ...

I've been following the rather entertaining case of Antigua vs. US for a few years now. Basically, the US government has taken a ...

This is something that's struck me too: as is oh-so-typical in these situations, Osnos does nothing at all to engage or respond to the ...

As regular readers of this blog will know, I am intrigued by the way that ideas from free software are moving across to different discipline...

...with your money : This pilot allows developers to request an optional dollar amount for their Firefox Add-on. Along with requesting this ...

Yesterday I wrote about Microsoft's attempt to persuade scientists to adopt its unloved Windows HPC platform by throwing in a few free ...

You may have noticed that in the 10 years since Napster, the music industry has succeeded in almost completely ruining its biggest opportuni...

Look, those nice people at Microsoft Research are saving science from its data deluge: Addressing an audience of prominent academic researc...

Yesterday I was talking about how patents are used to propagate Western ideas and power; here's a complementary story about local arti...