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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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ACTA Update IV

This is a continuation of my previous post examining the European Commission's attempt to dispel what it calls ten "myths" about ACTA [.pdf]. I'm commenting only on the most egregious attempts by the Commission to talk away the issues -...

Tags: acta, copyright, enforcement, european commission, ratchet, tpp

ACTA Update III

It's a sign of the European Commission's increasing desperation over ACTA that it has been forced to send out a document entitled "10 Myths About ACTA" [.pdf] that purports to debunk misinformation that is being put around. Unsurprisingly, the EC's...

Tags: acta, copyright, enforcement, european commission

Official: The White House Loves Open Source

Recently, the White House has adopted a scheme that we Brits have been using for some time now: online petitions. The basic idea is the same: You may use this platform on the White House website to create and sign...

Tags: epetitions, open soruce, software patents, us, white house

ACTA Update II

Although ACTA is billed as a global treaty, there are only two participants that really matter: the US and the European Union. If either of those dropped out, it would be completely ineffectual. I think the US is unlikely to...

Tags: acta, bulgaria, copyright, denmark, eu, european commission, france, generic drugs, internet, netherlands, slovenia

GOV.UK: What Open Source Has Been Waiting For?

I've been writing for what seems decades about the UK government's failure to take advantage of open source. And I've been writing for what is certainly years about its promises to do better. It finally looks as if it is...

Tags: open source, portals, uk government

ACTA Update I

Anyone who follows me on Twitter or identi.ca, or on Google+ will have noticed something of a crescendo of posts about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) recently. There are two reasons for this. The first is that the immediate threat...

Tags: acta, copyright, european parliament, open source, wikileaks

Computing in Schools: The Great Ctrl-Alt-Del

After years of unforgivable inaction, the education world is finally addressing the continuing disgrace that is computer teaching in this country. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the UK Education Secretary Michael Gove's comments on this area, and...

Tags: education, microsoft, microsoft office, open education, open innovation, open science, open source, royal society

SOPA Stopped: So Back to ACTA

So the Tweedledum and Tweedledee of copyright maximalist legislation, SOPA and PIPA, have been halted in their passage through the US legislative process. Of course, they're not dead, but are sure to return, zombie-like, either as modified versions of the...

Tags: acta, copyright, infringement, lobbying, sopa, transparency

Apple's iBooks 2: an Attack on Educational Freedoms

Yesterday, Apple launched its iBooks 2 for iPad - or, as it modestly puts it in the press release, "Apple Reinvents Textbooks": Apple today announced iBooks 2 for iPad, featuring iBooks textbooks, an entirely new kind of textbook that’s dynamic,...

Tags: apple, ebooks, education, eula, freedom, ipad, open source, tablets, textbooks

Orphan Works and the Digital Copyright Exchange

One of the boldest proposals of the Hargreaves Report was the creation of a Digital Copyright Exchange: In order to boost UK firms’ access to transparent, contestable and global digital markets, the UK should establish a cross sectoral Digital Copyright...

Tags: consultation, copyright, dce, hargreaves, open source, orphan works