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Glyn Moody
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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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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
Why We Need Open Source: Three Cautionary Tales
by Glyn Moody
Open Enterprise mostly writes about "obvious" applications of open source - situations where money can be saved, or control regained, by shifting from proprietary to open code. That battle is more or less won: free software is widely recognised as...
May 20, 2013 3:20 PM Read Full Post
Why are Facebook, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle Backing the Fight *Against* the Blind?
by Glyn Moody
One of the more disgraceful examples of the inherent selfishness of the copyright world is that it has consistently blocked a global treaty that would make it easier for the blind and visually impaired to read books in format like...
May 17, 2013 2:24 PM Read Full Post
The Importance of Being Attributed
by Glyn Moody
A few weeks ago, the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 received Royal Assent. Among its rag-bag of measures are some dealing with the vexed issue of orphan works (or hostage works as they should really be called.) To cut...
May 17, 2013 11:19 AM Read Full Post
Happy 10th Anniversary, Groklaw
by Glyn Moody
One of the amazing things about free software is how it has managed to succeed against all the odds - and against the combined might of some of the world's biggest and most wealthy companies. That shows two things, I...
May 16, 2013 10:01 AM Read Full Post
FRAND Is Broken: Time To Bin It [Updated]
by Glyn Moody
I've written many times about why FRAND licensing is not an option for open source projects, and should therefore be replaced by Royalty/Restriction-Free (RF) terms when it comes to defining open standards to create a level playing field. That's simply...
May 15, 2013 10:49 AM Read Full Post
Open Data, Creative Destruction and Money
by Glyn Moody
Nearly three years ago, I wrote an article exploring why at that time there were no billion-dollar companies (since then, Red Hat has finally broken through this barrier). Here's the key point: open source solutions save money for customers by...
May 13, 2013 12:39 PM Read Full Post
Why the Idea of the Software Patent Does Not Fly
by Glyn Moody
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about the growing threat of software patents in Europe (again). I was delighted to come across this reply from Martin Goetz, who wrote: On April 22nd I read Glyn Moody's Computerworlds.UK...
May 8, 2013 1:33 PM Read Full Post
EU Consultations: A Modest Proposal
by Glyn Moody
Last week I reported on the reply I received from Jean Bergevin of the European Commission on the subject of the IPRED consultation, and my own response to that. I wondered whether I would receive a reply, suspecting that I...
May 7, 2013 10:58 AM Read Full Post
The Most Dangerous Windows Infection of All
by Glyn Moody
Readers of this blog don't need to be told about Windows' awful security record, or how, when news outlets talk glibly of "viruses", they actually nearly always mean Windows malware. But sometimes there are stories from this weird world that...
May 6, 2013 3:07 PM Read Full Post
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