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The first glint of hope for openness in the UK government begins to sparkle : From today we are inviting developers to show government how t...

Although e-petitions don't often accomplish much (the apology for Alan Turing being a notable exception), they do have the virtue of for...

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is always good for a laugh thanks to its transparent agenda (the use of the weasel word "competi...

I've tweeted this , but it's so good, I just have to blog it too: CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 makes Earth green because it supports ...

One of the best windows into the otherwise dark and murky world of backroom deals among proponents of intellectual monopolies can be found i...

I've lamented many times the totally unjustified secrecy of the ACTA negotiations: these affect billions of people who have a right to k...

One of the fallback positions for purveyors of FUD is that the GNU GPL may not be valid, because it hasn't been properly tested in court...

Here's a brilliant, must-read feature exposing some of the hidden agendas of the Green Revolution and the dark side of the Gates Founda...

Vic Keegan had an interesting article in the Guardian last week about a new site mendeley.com : The music radio site Last.fm is one of the ...

Recently, I bought the complete works of Brahms . Of course, I was faced with the by-now common problem of whether to buy nostalgic CDs, or...

A few months ago, I wrote about GISAID , which takes a rather interesting and - to readers of this blog, at least - familiar approach to sh...

One of the vexed issues in the world of Creative Commons licensing is what, exactly, is meant by "non-commercial" use. In an atte...

I am a huge fan of Wikipedia, one of the greatest achievements of sharing; I also enjoy wandering around Flickr, although its lack of over-a...

One of the canards about open source is that it only produces hardcore hacker programs - dev tools, infrastructural stuff etc. - that have l...

Here's an unbelievably shameless attempt by Sir Roger Singleton to shout down the justified concern in the face of the insane UK govern...

PHP is one of the big success stories of open source, so it's great to read this interview with its creator, Rasmus Lerdorf. I was esp...

Another ill-informed opinion piece from a politician about file-sharing: Platinum selling artists Radiohead and Pink Floyd have said they a...

Russia's President Medvedev has decreed a new holiday for the country: Президент России Дмитрий Медведев своим указом установил професс...

This interview about the EU's intervention on the Oracle-Sun deal made me chortle: Q: What is the motivation for the EC itself? Weiss: ...

Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for Alan Turing and recognition of the appalling way he was treated. While Turing w...

This is not as it's supposed to be: Secretive management at Southampton University are undermining the spirit of Freedom of Information...

Against this background : BBC Worldwide’s digital sales and business development head Peter Mercier is leaving to be Microsoft’s content acq...

Now this is what I call open science: Hello, and thanks for dropping by at the Open Dinosaur Project. This blog is part of a wider project...

I've been avoiding this story about nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures using patent trolls as proxies because it's just bey...

This is so misguided: Digital personal property (DPP) is an attempt to make consumers treat digital media like physical objects. For instan...