By James Burke on 08 November 2008

Business models around Open Source Software have matured over the last 10 years generating significant revenues for those organisations that open up their intellectual property. This open source approach is now spreading into other areas where collaboration, peering, openness and sharing can bring tangible benefits to all participants.

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By James Burke on 23 February 2008

This 20 minute video from TED delivered by Jimmy Wales describes how a ragtag band of volunteers created Wikipedia Read More »

By James Burke on 07 February 2008

Open Source and Creative Commons licensing supports new ways to share ideas that can accelerate your company’s rate of innovation and growth, how could this work and what are the potential benefits? Read More »

By James Burke on 05 February 2008

The DataPortability group is gathering pace with membership to the group recently attracting people from Google, Facebook, Plaxo and Microsoft to but name a few, but what is Data Portability? Read More »

By James Burke on 01 January 2008

Today is Public Domain Day in most countries of the world, where copyright runs from the death of the author of a work until the end of the 50th, 70th, or some other year thereafter depending on the country. Today is the first day where works which have passed out of copyright first enter the public domain. Read More »

By James Burke on 28 December 2007

The University of Edinburgh School of Law has started to publish a journal under a Creative Commons licence. Read More »

By James Burke on 27 November 2007

Zoho has beaten Google to implementing Google Gears into their online word processer - Zoho Writer Read More »

By James Burke on 24 June 2007

A short video on how to use an Open Source licence recorded at a Channel 4 event in Inverness in 2006. Read More »