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How Can Any Company Ever Trust Microsoft Again?
by Glyn Moody
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...
June 17, 2013 2:34 PM Read Full Post
Digital Economy Act Lurches On; Public Still Shut Out
by Glyn Moody
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...
June 13, 2013 9:04 PM Read Full Post
How Does Prism Change the Way We See Things?
by Glyn Moody
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...
June 10, 2013 5:39 PM Read Full Post
What's the Net Net on Neelie Kroes's EU Net Neutrality?
In the UK, the net neutrality debate is not quite so visible.
by Glyn Moody
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...
June 7, 2013 11:09 AM Read Full Post
Meeting Mr Firefox: Johnathan Nightingale
by Glyn Moody
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...
June 6, 2013 9:52 AM Read Full Post
Open Sourcing the UK's Operating System
by Glyn Moody
"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...
June 4, 2013 8:16 AM Read Full Post
BSA Study Demonstrates Open Source's Economic Advantage
by Glyn Moody
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...
May 28, 2013 2:17 PM Read Full Post
Another Reason Why Open Source Wins: Fairness
by Glyn Moody
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...
May 27, 2013 5:20 PM Read Full Post
EU Vote on Clinical Trials Data - Please Contact MEPs Now
by Glyn Moody
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...
May 22, 2013 11:52 AM Read Full Post
Reading Shakespeare: the Next Act of Open Data
by Glyn Moody
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...
May 21, 2013 10:36 AM Read Full Post
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