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Glyn Moody's look at all levels of the enterprise open source stack. The blog will look at the organisations that are embracing open source, old and new alike (start-ups welcome), and the communities of users and developers that have formed around them (or not, as the case may be).

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How Can Any Company Ever Trust Microsoft Again?

Irrespective of the details of the current revelations about US spying being provided by Edward Snowden in the Guardian, there is already a huge collateral benefit. On the one hand, the US government is falling over itself to deny some...

Tags: cia, echelon, malware, microsoft, nsa, open source, prism, snowden, spying, zero day

Digital Economy Act Lurches On; Public Still Shut Out

Remember the Digital Economy Act, surely one of the most disgraceful episodes in recent British political history? It was "passed" back 2010 - I use inverted commas, since it was actually rammed through an almost empty House of Commons in...

Tags: copyright, digital economy act, infringement, microsoft, ooxml, sopa

How Does Prism Change the Way We See Things?

The extraordinary revelations about the NSA's global spying programme Prism have only just started - was it really just last Thursday that things began? So it would be extremely rash to attempt any kind of definitive statement about what is...

Tags: caspar bowden, cloud computing, edward snowden, eu, nsa, open source, pnr, prism, privacy, safe harbour, spying, surveillance, swift, us

What's the Net Net on Neelie Kroes's EU Net Neutrality?

In the UK, the net neutrality debate is not quite so visible.

It's been a while since I wrote about net neutrality, but of course it's never gone away as an important theme. Indeed, it was inevitable that it would start to rear its ugly head again, since so many powerful companies...

Tags: deutsche telekom, eu, neelie kroes, net neutrality, throttling, uk, voip

Meeting Mr Firefox: Johnathan Nightingale

Mozilla and its central Firefox project are themes that I have returned to often on this blog. That's not so surprising: Mozilla is one of the oldest free software projects, starting back in 1998 when Netscape stunned the world by...

Tags: android, apple, firefox, firefox os, html5, johnathan nightingale, microsoft, mobile, mozilla, netscape, web apps

Open Sourcing the UK's Operating System

"Law is the operating system of our society ... So show me the manual!" Not alas, my witty words, but those found on the site Public.Resource.Org, run by the redoubtable Carl Malamud. The basic idea is simple: that laws can...

Tags: bsi, carl malamud, case law, law, magna carta, open source, regulations, standards, wexis

BSA Study Demonstrates Open Source's Economic Advantage

I love the spring. Not, of course, because of the glorious weather, since we don't have any. But because it's time for the annual BSA report on piracy, which is guaranteed to provide me with hours of innocent fun as...

Tags: bsa, economics, equations, gdp, mathematics, microsoft, open source, piracy

Another Reason Why Open Source Wins: Fairness

I've written a number of posts looking at less-familiar advantages of open source over closed source, and here's another one. Proprietary systems can't be forked, which means that it's not possible to change the underlying ethos, for example by tweaking...

Tags: android, blood minerals, fairness, open source, smartphones

EU Vote on Clinical Trials Data - Please Contact MEPs Now

I've written a few times about open data in the context of clinical trials - the information that must be provided when new drugs seek approval. As I noted, there is a growing movement to make such basic safety data...

Tags: clinical trials, european parliament, meps, open data, transparency

Reading Shakespeare: the Next Act of Open Data

As readers of this blog will have noticed, much of the most innovative work in the field of openness is taking place in open data. One of the largest stores of data is held by government, and the argument for...

Tags: creative commons, licensing, open data, open source, ordnance survey, shakespeare, trading funds