Microsoft and open source
An obvious and powerful way for closed source shops to compete with open source software is to strategically open source. That is they can release...
How can you enforce anti-piracy laws when people can sell free software?
Courtesy of Slashdot, a nice bit of culture clash and mutual incomprehension broke out in England when an anti-piracy bureaucrat approached the Mozilla Foundation reporting...
The 10 second Julia Baird
Writers should keep it short and get to the point, says Julia Baird. Text messaging shows that the Sesame Street generation and generation Y get...
Anyone fancy being IT Tropmeister?
Stephen Bounds who helped us our hugely in setting up the new site has a business to run and can't help us in day to...
Open Source Software: Massachusetts leads the way – and falls flat on its face
I reported the triumph of Massachusetts mandating open standards for the computer files its government would generate here. Well, for the unititiated, along with various...
Why don’t they? . . . .
Compared with a few hundred years ago the world works incredibly, almost miraculously well. But do you think of something really simple that you wonder...
Off to Japan
I'm chaperoning my 11 year old daughter to the 2005 Children's World Summit for the Environment in Toyohashi City and Toyota City in Aichi Prefecture...