Month: May 2015

Learning from Openness: Partial Sharing is not Enough

By editor@techworld.com (Glyn Moody) Recently, I wrote about the Open Humans Network, which aims to make it easier for people to share various forms of biological data. That’s become a hugely important area; the …read more Source:: Open Source

Opening up the Shadowy World of Trade Secrets

By editor@techworld.com (Glyn Moody) Back in January, I wrote about moves within the European Commission to strengthen the protection for trade secrets. That’s potentially a worrying development for the world of open source, based …read more Source:: Open Source

After OpenStreetMap – OpenSeaMap

By editor@techworld.com (Glyn Moody) As I’ve noted a number of times before, one of the most exciting aspects of the world of openness is the way in which ideas are not only shared within …read more Source:: Open Source