The H archives: features by Glyn Moody
The following is a list of features that have been written for The H by columnist Glyn Moody.
Glyn Moody is a writer, blogger and speaker. He has been writing, lecturing and consulting about business use of the internet since early 1994, and about open source since 1995. His book, “Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution”, a detailed history of free software, was published in 2001.
Monopolies, whether created by the state or created by the market, can be problematic for open source, and as technology moves forward, new spaces to monopolise are always appearing. Glyn Moody looks at how the authorities should handle the problem
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Glyn Moody imagines what "Risk Factors" a hypothetical Open Source Incorporated would put into the regulatory filings that corporations file every year, and gets a little insight into what the communities of Open Source should be prepared for
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Glyn Moody looks at an example of how a patent on one line of code can inhibit innovation for a generation and how that lesson should not be forgotten when the government is asking what an open standard is
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Open source's ability to innovate has been challenged many times. But Glyn Moody argues that open source innovation is actually going from strength to strength, creating new opportunities to deliver cheap computing to people corporations would not normally consider
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At the beginning of this year a DMCA takedown notice was used against
the open source project OpenDDR. Glyn Moody looks at the background to
this story and the issues that it raises
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Glyn Moody looks at calls to open up the source code of medical implants and finds they logically lead to recreating, in the image of open source, how we create new digitally controlled devices
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What does it take to open up a proprietary application and make it a successful open source project? To answer this, Glyn Moody takes a look at some prominent successes and failures and identifies the best practices
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Ubuntu on your TV, Android running your refrigerator. Glyn Moody looks at some of the developments announced at the recent Consumer Electronic Show and explains how Linux is the natural choice for intelligent appliances
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Free software plays in supporting online freedom and Glyn Moody thinks there are some projects it should take on in 2012 to help reinforce or reestablish those freedoms
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Given the recent concerns raised about Mozilla's dependence on its relationship with Google for revenues, what does the future hold for the organisation? Glyn Moody looks at the directions that its stated commitment to an open web is taking Mozilla
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The world of libraries is not one we normally associate with passion and high drama. And yet Glyn Moody finds that is precisely what the long-running saga of Koha, the open source library management system, has been filled with
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Google matters for open source: the company uses free software, helps open source projects and creates its own. However, recent choices made by the company are causing problems. Glyn Moody looks at the current situation and ask if its too late for it to change
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The digital age has added significantly to the tools available to scientific work, but has also introduced new challenges. Glyn Moody describes the present situation, and suggests that we need true openness with respect to scientific software
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The satisfaction at seeing Android's rapid ascent in the smartphone hierarchy has led many people to overlook the proprietary elements in the otherwise free code, but, as more patent deals are made, the spectre of the Microsoft tax looms ever larger. Glyn Moody looks at the open source alternatives
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Microsoft has, in terms of market share, fallen behind in its quest for dominance in web serving. Glyn Moody looks at the Apache web server that Microsoft is battling against and the ecosystem around it, and asks if we are learning from The Apache Way
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Android seems to be having a difficult time at the moment, but, far from being a sign of increasing problems, Glyn Moody argues that the forking of the mobile operating system by the likes of Amazon and Baidu could work in Google's favour
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At first antagonistic and contemptuous, Microsoft has for years struggled to find a way to live alongside open source; even though it might prefer if it did not have to. Glyn Moody looks at the situation and asks if open hardware might present Microsoft with a way forward
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Is Mozilla about to experience its next Firefox moment as it takes on the smartphone business with "boot 2 gecko"? Glyn Moody explains why it could be
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Android is under serious threat. Not so much commercially, where it continues to trounce its rivals and take an ever-larger market share around the world, but through legal threats. Glyn Moody looks at what Google should do to defend it
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After its initial success, the HTML standard suffered from the battle between Microsoft and Netscape in the browser wars. But after that period of stagnation, things are changing with the development of HTML5; Glyn Moody explains the direction in which the latest version of the standard is taking things
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