It was a surprise to see Richard Stallman’s signature on a letter to the European Commission calling on them to block the acquisition of MySQL by Oracle with its proposed…

In my previous posts, I’ve drawn an analogy between open source software and organic food, hinting that in both cases the rush to create a working brand lost some of…

Professors’ Open Source Summer Experience (POSSE), a training bootcamp targeted for faculty members of technical universities in Asia is being organized from November 9-13, 2009 at Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore….

I read Sun Tzu’s The Art of War more than 10 years ago, and there is one bit of advice that I still use daily in my business dealings. It…

When I wrote about Organic Software recently, I was largely eulogising the community dimension of open source software. But there’s another way in which the idea of “organic software” is…

This week I’m speaking at Open World Forum in Paris on the subject of open source and the digital recovery (la relance numérique), and for a change I’m going to…

I’m not sure why, but the “there is no open source business model” discussion has woken up again, with Matthew Aslett and Stephen Walli in particular chipping in views. Last…

My activities in Open Source have paid for our house, car, etc etc (despite there being no such thing as an “open source business model”). However, I have never really…

According to a new article in the Business Standard, Open Source software can save India $2 BN per year. Based on my experiences and discussions with Indian IT executives, that…

Of the people, for the people, by the people. These three ideals were framed in the Constitution adopted in 1789, but according to 21st-century Pamphleteer Carl Malamud, the actual history…