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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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From Open Source to Crowdfunding

One of the premises of this blog is that the success and methodology of open source are not one-offs, but part of a larger move towards open, collaborative activity. Thus, by observing what open source does well - and not...

Tags: crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, eu, finance, monoculture, open content, open data, open source, startups

Give Your Views on Europe's Digital Future

As you may have gathered, I'm a big fan of consultations: if they are asking us what we think, we really ought not pass up the chance of telling them. Sometime those consultations concern extremely specific and urgent matters, like...

Tags: consultation, digital agenda, eu, europe, policy

OECD Gets It: The Internet Works, So Don't Break It

Yesterday I wrote about an extraordinarily clueless document from an arm of the UN that seemed to have no real understanding of what the Internet was, how people used it, or what should be done to build on its strengths....

Tags: commons, internet, net neutrality, oecd, telecoms, un, wict

UN Assault on the Open Internet and Privacy

As you may recall, terrorism was one of the primary justifications for bringing in the disproportionate Draft Communications Data Bill: communications data from new technologies is less available and often harder to access. Without action there is a serious and...

Tags: censorship, internet, snooping, terrorism, uk government, un

Is Amazon Playing Fair?

In the online world, it's hard to remember a time before Amazon. Today, it dominates the ecommerce space, and is rapidly becoming equally dominant in the ebook world. Against that background, a story that broke yesterday is rather worrying. Simon...

Tags: amazon, bullying, customers, drm, ebooks, kindles, norway, tax, vat

Does CETA Spell ACTA?

Last month I wrote about the "clean and open Internet" consultation being carried out by the European Commission, and pointed out that many of the E-commerce Directive's measures mapped quite neatly onto some of the worst ideas of ACTA. Maybe...

Tags: acta, canada, ceta, copyright, edri, european commission, european parliament, secrecy, transparency

GOV.UK "Open" for Business; More to Follow

Back in February I wrote about an exciting project from the Cabinet Office: a complete overhaul of the UK government's "citizen-facing" Web sites. It was exciting in part because it was rather good, which made a nice change for a...

Tags: betas, open source, savings, uk government, users

Why This EU Meeting on FRAND in Open Source?

Long-suffering readers may recall that the issue of FRAND licensing in the context of open standards cropped up quite a lot this year. We still don't know what the final outcome of the UK consultation on open standards will be,...

Tags: alfresco, brussels, epo, frand, ibm, kolab, microsoft, open standards, rf, software patents

Last Chance: Consultation on Net Neutrality in EU

Back in July, I wrote about a consultation on net neutrality from the EU, entitled On-line public consultation on "specific aspects of transparency, traffic management and switching in an Open Internet". Just to remind you, here's the background: This public...

Tags: consultation, deep packet inspection, dpi, european commission, net neutrality, privacy, surveillance, tim berners-lee

Snooper's Charter: 19,000 Emails Against, 0 In Favour

Back in August, I urged people to respond to the consultation on the truly dreadful Draft Communications Bill, aka Snooper's Charter. Obviously, I wasn't alone in doing that: many organisations concerned about the impact on civil liberties in this country...

Tags: consultation, draft communications bill, emails, org, snooping, uk