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This looks huge: Глава правительства Владимир Путин подписал план перехода властных структур и федеральных бюджетников на свободное ПО. Сог...

Something entitled “Report on the International Status of Open Source Software 2010” sounds pretty dry, as does its summary: The objective o...

Although the current excitement over the gradual release of the Wikileaks documents is justified in that it concerns what is undoubtedly an ...

Back in September, Mozilla made an announcement: This week Mozilla joined Open Invention Network as a licensee. OIN is an organization which...

There is now a well-established class of writers about the digital world whom I fondly dub the Old Curmudgeons. Basically, they agree, thin...

Whether or not Wikileaks turns out to be a watershed in politics, there's another question of more immediate interest to the open source...

Here's a wonderful cautionary tale: Systran created a specially adapted version of its Systran-Unix machine translation software for the...

Long-suffering readers of this blog will know that the European Interoperability Framework has occupied me for some time - I wrote about the...

I always look forward to reading Microsoft-funded research, because over the years it's evolved into a kind of game. The results - of co...

Theo de Raadt is one of the key hackers outside the mainstream GNU/Linux world. Here's his self-penned bio: I am the founder of OpenBSD ...

One of the many confusingly-similar groups in the open source space is Linaro: a Not For Profit (NFP) organization that aims to make embedde...

Although I knew that there is yet another trade treaty being discussed between New Zealand, the US and others, I hadn't heard about thi...

Even though it is generally accepted that open source is used widely throughout the business world, it doesn't hurt having a few high-pr...

As readers of this blog will know, interoperability is a key issue in Europe at the moment. We are still waiting for the imminent version 2 ...

A significant event took place yesterday: potentially the biggest software patent troll of all has finally woken from its slumbers: Today In...

The unveiling of Google's Chrome OS is rather extraordinary - not so much for what was announced, but how. After all, the first details ...

One of the many fascinating aspects of the Wikileaks #cablegate saga is that, unusually, computer technology plays a central rather than per...

Unless you live in certain countries or read certain newspapers, you will have been deluged over the last few days with “revelations” from t...

It will not have escaped your notice that the patent system has been the subject of several posts on this blog, or that the general tenor is...

A couple of days ago I wrote about the deal between the regional government of Puglia and Microsoft, noting that it was frustrating that we...

The announcement that Attachmate would acquire Novell for $2.2 billion has naturally provoked a flurry of comments and analyses in the free ...

It's clearly still far too early to attempt to assess the impact of Wikileaks' latest mega-leak, this time of US secret cables, whic...

There's a nice little argument bubbling away over in the south of Italy. It concerns the decision of Nichi Vendola, the president of Pug...

It is a truism that slow-moving law cannot keep up with fleet-of-foot digital technology, so that makes the rare court decision dealing with...

Wikipedia is often regarded as little more than a poor person's encyclopedia, providing a handy reference collection of basic facts. Bu...