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Call For Participation
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Call For Participation

Have you ever attended an open source conference? In my article for ComputerWorldUK today, I briefly review four good choices that you can attend over the next...

Explaining OSI Membership
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Explaining OSI Membership

The video of my keynote at OSCON is now live on YouTube: That link I mentioned:  opensource.org/join

Portland Submarine tour
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Portland Submarine tour

Portland Submarine tour, a set on Flickr. One enjoyable perk of being a speaker at OSCON and a new author at O’Reilly Media was an invitation to their “Friends”...

OSI Opens For Membership
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OSI Opens For Membership

You can finally join OSI. I’ve had a busy day at OSCON in Portland, OR today (apologies if I’ve been missing your messages and/or deadlines…) where interest around...

Published
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Published

The feature I wrote for O’Reilly is also an e-book.

Even The ITU Is Worried
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Even The ITU Is Worried

A press release at the end of last week disclosed the ITU is worried about the epidemic of patent litigation and the abuse of RAND terms on patents by industry...

MinkCast: Mandriva Rides Again
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MinkCast: Mandriva Rides Again

I interviewed

GPL Forked
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GPL Forked

A new project that forks the GPL shows that Github isn’t just for software developers. See my column in InfoWorld this week for more.

Bosonics
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Bosonics

What is a Higgs Boson? I think this animation from PHD Comics is brilliant.

How ACTA Nearly Won
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How ACTA Nearly Won

ACTA was defeated today in the European Parliament, but one British Liberal-Democrat MEP voted for it. Understanding why helps us to understand how the political...

ACTA Needs You
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ACTA Needs You

Just posted on ComputerWorldUK – why you need to call or write to your MEP now, ahead of Wednesday’s vote on ACTA, and how to do it. By the way, is anyone else...

Solving NP-Complete Problems?
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Solving NP-Complete Problems?

In preparing for the interview with the Java-based Drools Planner on FLOSS Weekly, my attention was grabbed by the claim it can solve NP-complete problems. You’ll...

Red Hat
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Red Hat

Not every project hits the headlines. As I’ve been co-hosting FLOSS Weekly over the last few months, I’ve noticed a surprising number of projects showing up that...

Google Uses Famous Users As G+ Test Team
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Google Uses Famous Users As G+ Test Team

The Google Plus team turned on a new feature today while it was being announced at Google IO in San Francisco. Google+ Events is a new feature that integrates Google...

Whatever Happened To OpenSolaris?
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Whatever Happened To OpenSolaris?

Oracle probably thought they’d killed OpenSolaris after they bought Sun and focussed so many resources on Sun’s hardware business. But that sort of thinking would...

A Database Ripe For Abuse
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A Database Ripe For Abuse

The draft Communications Data Bill is of great concern, not primarily because it lacks controls over who can access private data – these will be added – but because...

Help test Ubuntu for Android
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Help test Ubuntu for Android

Want to get hands-on with Ubuntu for Android?

See you at OSCON?
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See you at OSCON?

I’ve news. My talk – about why OSI is more relevant than ever – has been accepted for OSCON

Book Me In The USA!
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Book Me In The USA!

If you’d like me to speak at your corporate event, user group or conference in the USA, you’ll be interested to know that I expect to be in the USA in mid-July...

OSI Affiliate Scheme Live
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OSI Affiliate Scheme Live

The move to membership at the Open Source
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