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As regular readers will know, I regard the concept of the commons as an increasingly important one, not least because it pulls together thre...

As a former publisher (no, really) I am fascinated by, and sympathetic to, efforts to come up with new models for profitable publishing in t...

One of the many arguments against allowing patents for software (alongside the principle argument that software is made up of algorithms, wh...

The content management company Day Software may not be the world's most famous outfit making money from open source – perhaps a functio...

Recently, there was an interesting rumour circulating that Oracle had a war chest of some $70 billion, and was going on an acquisition spre...

Talking of commons, I was reading David Bollier's Viral Spiral recently, probably the best book about the rise of the commons as a new...

As its name suggests, a commons is an outgrowth of things held in common, like common land. This has been extended to the digital sphere wi...

It began, perhaps, with SCO's insane attempt to obtain money from IBM and others for alleged infringements of its code. It proceeded w...

As regular readers of this blog will know, free software has an importance that extends way beyond the world of software. But for most peopl...

In 2007 the British Library (BL) and the JISC funded The Google Generation Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future research (C...

Once more there is a lot of heated discussion about what constitutes a “real” open source business model – that is, one that remains true to...

It's an old joke by now that this year will be the year of the GNU/Linux desktop – just like last year, and the year before that. But no...

I recently wrote about the latest iteration of the Open Source Hardware Definition, which provides a framework for crafting open hardware li...

One of the many things I love about Wikipedia is the underlying vision, as articulated by Jimmy Wales: Imagine a world in which every singl...

The growing success of open source software has naturally spurred on others to apply its lessons elsewhere. Open content is perhaps the most...

In the wake of its “success” in pushing through Digital Economy Act, the British music industry is hoping to move on to the next stage: usin...

Last week I published a short correspondence I had with Richard Stallman on the subject of the GNU GPL and copyright. As I mentioned, that w...

I've never been one to follow the latest digital fashions immediately. I didn't start blogging until November 2005, and I only joine...

Arguably the most important development in the world of open source in the last year or two has been the rise and rise of Google's Linux...

Here's a variety of "sharing" I'd not come across before: private label rights. This is what Wikipedia has to say on the...

Imagine a country that has one of the best Internet infrastructures in the world, and yet its government effectively forbids the use of GNU/...

A couple of days ago, I was writing about how Richard Stallman's GNU GPL uses copyright as a way of ensuring that licensees share code t...

As long-suffering readers of this blog will know, one of the many reasons I am against software patents is that software consists of algorit...

Today is the last day for your MEPs to sign Written declaration ACTA 12/2010 (full background available from La Quadrature du Net.). To be p...

As readers of this blog will doubtless know, Richard Stallman's great stroke of genius at the founding of the GNU project was to use cop...