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As promised in my previous post, I include below my submission to the UK Independent Review of "IP" and Growth. Submission to Inde...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the UK's ”Independent Review of Intellectual Property and Growth”, which is currently soliciting sub...

I've noted elsewhere that there is a major piece of FUD being put about by content producers: that piracy causes massive damage to a co...

The dust has barely settled on the announcement of the major deal between Nokia and Microsoft, weird possibilities have been and gone, and w...

In a post last week, I wrote about the current obsession with “IP”, and noted some moves to make it more suitable for the digital age. In th...

One of the sure signs that open source has entered the mainstream is when companies not normally associated with this approach starting gett...

As you may have noticed, the topic of “IP” - “intellectual property” - seems increasingly to the fore these days. Actually, that's not r...

As I've noted before, one of the tricks used in the current ACTA negotiations is to blur the lines between counterfeiting and piracy, a...

One of the most embarrassing features of the dotcom era was a habit of putting “cyber” in front of everything to make it look hot and trendy...

The Apple iPad is a huge hit: 7.33 million of them were sold in the quarter ending in December. That's a pretty amazing achievement. But...

Over on the RedMonk blog, there's an entertaining post by James Governor on the subject of forks, prompted by the imminent arrival of a ...

The opposition between openness and so-called "rights" - which are typically state-granted monopolies like copyright and patents -...

On Monday, I called the HMRC to give them some information they wanted from me. After being placed on hold for about 10 minutes, I finally g...

Free software was inspired in part by the scientific method, but it is only now that science is starting to apply free software's key in...

The concept of the commons derives from common land. This still lives on in England, in the form of commons - like Clapham Common - and as ...

The Economist has been writing poorly-informed articles about open source for years - I dissected a particularly egregious example back in 2...

I wrote about the open source OpenStack back in October, based largely on wandering around the main OpenStack site. But there's no subst...

One of the reasons that I regard the rise of WikiLeaks as such a key event is that it is throwing an interesting light on so many areas – ma...

A few months ago, I spent quite a few words disembowelling a BSA report on piracy that made some highly-simplistic assumptions and calculati...

As my occasional postings on the subject indicate, one area that fascinates me is that of fabbers , aka 3D printers . One reason is that th...

I've been following the move to open data by the UK government for some time on this blog. Major milestones include the creation of the ...

Open access is about making copies of publicly-funded research available freely online. This stems from the belief that (a) having paid for...

The more powerful that Google becomes, and the more it needs to satisfy investors' desires for a good return on their money, the more it...

Dimdim is a Web-based collaboration platform that I signed up for ages ago, but never quite got around to using. Looks like I may have misse...

I asked Glyn’s help to answer many questions that came to my mind in the latest few months that shown how tough the fight to keep the Intern...