Last night I received a google alert about a new blog posting with a most misleading title. The title read “OSI Approves Microsoft’s ‘Shared Software’ Licenses”. This half-truth was paired with another half-truth: that I was President of the Portland-based Open Source Initiative. (The OSI is incorporated in California.)

This morning, I received another google alert from another blog posting with exactly the same article, but from an entirely different blog.

In July I was honored to be appointed Visiting Scholar at SILS, the School of Information and Library Science and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The Information and…

In a followup to a previous blog posting, I read in today’s headlines that NASA has corrected their position and decided to disclose research that they had planned to destroy—a victory for transparency and for public safety.

The news report I read was from CNN.

Last month I visited Beijing and Hong Kong on a trip through Asia. It seems that everybody visiting China—Beijing in particular—comes back saying “you just cannot imagine…”. I stayed at…

EWeek’s Jason Brooks has one (print) page to dispel 10 myths about Open Source. He does an excellent job!

I am a proud user of Blender, the free open source 3d content creation suite, but not yet a proud artist. That will take time, practice, and a lot more…

CNN just reported that NASA is refusing to disclose air safety data. The topic paragraph summarizes the facts of the report: Anxious to avoid upsetting air travelers, NASA is withholding…

If Al Gore can win the Nobel Peace Prize for bringing the findings of the scientific community to the political forefront, perhaps Richard Stallman should be next in line for…

I am the son of an anchorman. I am a First Amendment guy. In a statement after Diana’s death, I said the only thing worse than out-of-control photographers with no…

During this morning’s Weekend Edition Saturday, NPR’s Scott Simon reflected on the progress of the One Laptop Per Child XO project, pointing to the salient features of a laptop whose…

Hello all you Open Source fans out there! Some of you have quite rightly suggested enhancements to the overall services OSI offers the Open Source community. We’ve decided to do…