Some people have all the luck – by Neil McGovern. A colleague said this to me after it was announced that Rothschild Patent Imaging LLC alleged that GNOME is in violation of one of their patents. Being sued is usually… Continue Reading
OpenUK’s first annual Christmas party was a time to celebrate and share all the great things happening. It was definitely the first Christmas celebration of the year for the UK’s open source community. A number of OpenUK’s volunteers who have been… Continue Reading
The European Commission is taking Open Source, Open Hardware and Open Data seriously and recognising the need to take real and defined steps to move forward to the ‘open source first’ objective of the Tallinn Declaration. To this end, 14… Continue Reading
On October 19th and 20th, long running open source event OggCamp will have its next outing in Manchester, UK. OggCamp is named for the file format Ogg Vorbis, reflecting roots in the podcasting community and the open source communities, especially… Continue Reading
Coraline Ada Ehmke (where.coraline.codes) has just stirred up a minor hornets’ nest in the world of Free and Open Source Software by re leasing a new licence: the Ethical Open Source Licence: https://firstdonoharm.dev. Ehmke is known as the author of the… Continue Reading
Tech Leaders’ Summit is an annual event organised by Technology Insider Magazine and Bonhill Group techleaderssummit.com. It’s billed as the biggest tech-leaders’ event in the UK and on 12 September, the room at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London was filled… Continue Reading
“It was the third of September, That day I’ll always remember, yes I will Cos that was the day…” We launched OpenUK And no doubt Stuart, Martin and I will remember it much more fondly than Boris Johnson, our current… Continue Reading
The Ripple Foundation team are thrilled to receive the Public Sector and Third Sector award for the UK Open Source Awards – thank you to all who nominated us and the judges for recognising our important work in what was… Continue Reading
Espoo, Finland, July 19, 2019 – The Intellectual Property and Open Source Advisory Panel of the United Nations Technology Labs (UNTIL) convened its first meeting this week on the campus of Aalto University. The aim of the Panel is to… Continue Reading
Schools hosting their sensitive data in public clouds, especially ones controlled by US tech giants, may not be a good choice. Not only can the technology be lax in terms of security and privacy, it is also crippling innovation in… Continue Reading