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I must be a glutton for punishment: I've written yet another letter to my MP about the Digital Economy Bill (not that he bothered replyi...

Here's a big win for open source: the Italian Constitutional Court has approved a law in Piedmont giving preference to open source, rul...

Open source is under attack in Europe. Not openly or obviously, but in the background, behind closed doors. The battleground is the imminent...

Before Peter Suber became Mr Open Access, he was a philosopher by trade. This is evident in the long, thoughtful essays he writes for the S...

As you may have noticed, there's some kind of political thingy happening in a few weeks' time. Too often, the geek vote is simply ig...

Well, this is rather droll. The other day I was writing about the patent troll to end all trolls, Intellectual Ventures. And now we have thi...

For some months now, I've been touting "Avatar" as a good example of how the film industry should be concentrating on enhancin...

Digg's pretty established these days as a way of crowd-sourcing newsgathering. How about applying the same idea to politics ? Lots of s...

Yesterday I attended the Counter Conference: The COUNTER Project (www.counter2010.org), funded under Framework 7 of the EU SSHRC Programme, ...

Nice observation : The other remarkable thing that happened at the conference took place during the three-strikes session. This was a parall...

There's a big “plenary vote” in the European Parliament at 11.30 local time (10.30 UK time). This is great opportunity for MEPs to sign ...

La Quadrature du Net has obtained another ACTA document - and it's a biggie, but at the moment only a 56-page PDF . You can help conve...

Yesterday I was warning about the threat that the super-troll Intellectual Ventures represents. To provide some balance, here's a surpri...

If the first era of free software was about the creation of the fully-rounded GNU/Linux operating system, the second saw a generation of key...

It's a measure of how far digital technology has entered our lives that Gordon Brown should get up at some ungodly hour this morning in ...

Here's a fine piece of hagiography , with a really excellent conclusion that touches on those diabolical software patents : The founders...

If you haven't heard of Intellectual Ventures, you will do. Set up by ex-Microsoftie Nathan Myhrvold, with investments from Microsoft am...

Why does open source succeed? Apart, that is, from the fact that it is created by huge numbers of amazingly clever and generous people? Or,...

Without much fanfare, the European Commission has arranged an "ACTA Stakeholders’ Consultation Meeting". Of course, the big prob...

So, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) rejected international trade restrictions on northern bluefin tuna,...

As regular readers of this blog will know, for the last five years or so I have been tracking the diffusion of the ideas behind open source ...

This isn't another post about Spotify: it's a perceptive comment made by the company's CEO during an interview : Q: We’ve heard ...

I have restrained myself from writing much about the ICC's "Building a Digital Economy" report , because I knew it would make ...

Free software has won: practically all of the biggest and most exciting Web companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter run on it. But it is...

Microsoft's comments on happenings outside its immediate product portfolio are rare, and all the more valuable when they do appear. Here...