If you think open data is as important as open source, then please take a look at a release candidate of the Open Database License (ODbL). It uses a combination…

Okay, so Doc Searls has been blogging for a long time about how you don’t want to get involved in a silo (context: a silo is a proprietary user interface…

– Are you interested in building a successful business in Free/Open Source Software (FOSS), and in helping others to do the same? – Do you have a solid background in…

FOSSFA and OSIWA, in their Free and Open Source Software for West Africa and Beyond (FOSSWAY) project are set to invest in FOSS research in West Africa. In the recently…

When you have a startup you ego-surf a lot. It isn’t for the normal reasons people ego surf (indeed there is something inside of me left over from my punk…

The Freeman, in December of last year, published an excellent study of a natural experiment in patents: the Steam Engine. The power of a steam engine is rated in “duty”:…

Are you not a coder? Or are your coding skills rusty, having moved on? No matter! You can still contribute to open source. Open source is only one part of…

The Center for Strategic and International Studies released their sixth update to their CSIS Open Source Policy Study last year, and given their track record we should expect to see…

Along with the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting, the Open Source Business Conference was one of the two best conferences I’ve been to recently (I generally hate conferences)….

In email to a third party, copied to me, Linux activist and long-time friend Rick Moen comments on the acronym FLOSS (usually explanded “Free, Libré, and Open Source”. I continue…

Peter Hansteen of Bergen Norway reports that the Norwegian Police Force has disclosed two large-scale information security incidents. He explains that: Apparently large parts of the bureaucracy that is responsible…