Venkatesh Hariharan recently wrote an article titled The practical problem with software patents, a subject near and dear to my heart. He draws on the same research that I have…

Nearly 2,000 applications were filed for the Knight Foundation 2009 News Challenge. As you may recall, the Knight Foundation has committed to fund $25M over five years to projects that:…

It would be a bit of a stretch to claim that Barack Obama won the 2008 election because his website ran open source software while John McCain’s ran on proprietary…

I just learned about a link that’s apparently been live for a while, but it’s new to me: http://sony.com/linux. Following that link one level to Television you’ll see that SONY…

These guys (SciPhone) really REALLY ought to get together with some open source developers. Looks like a great product, but it’s almost 100% certain that their software stinks. Is it…

All through last week, I spent my time in Ghana at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Center for Excellence in ICT ( AITI-KACE ) in Accra. It has been an incredibly…

Transparency is key in enabling people to participate in the creation of wealth and well-being in society. In the past decade, free and open source software (FOSS) has become one…

The August 7th press release from Miami reads Fifty coaches are standing by online to help innovative thinkers apply for the Knight News Challenge, a $5 million-a-year contest to move…

License proliferation has been a topic for discussion for quite a while now in the FOSS community and many would like to see the Open Source Initiative (OSI) fix this…

Dave Rosenberg has picked up the story being spun by The Standish Group that says Open Source software is raising havoc throughout the software market. It is the ultimate in…

The O’Reilly Open Source Conference is one of the premier events for hackers, executives, users, and industry analysts to share and discuss open source trends, strategies, and perspectives. It has…