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Tristan Nitot is founder and president of Mozilla Europe. He talks about the past, present and future of Mozilla in Europe, the threats facing open source, and how to help Firefox gain even greater market share.

The news that AOL is ceasing to support its Netscape browsers is not only the end of an era, it is the end of a story that encompassed just about every major trend in the rise of the Internet as a mass medium, and that was crucially important for free software.

Interoperability between open source applications remains the final frontier in the enterprise, and the Open Solutions Alliance was set up to address this issue. Its President, Dominic Sartorio, explains the origins of the group, its aims, how it functions and what future developments he sees for both the Open Solutions Alliance, and open source in enterprises.

Mark Taylor is best known as President of the Open Source Consortium (OSC) - and as the scourge of the BBC over its Windows-only iPlayer. He talks about the state of open source, the main obstacles to the wider use of free software by companies in the UK and Europe, and what can be done to overcome them.

Chris DiBona joined Google in August 2004, and is Open Source Programs Manager there. He explains why open source is good for Google's business – and its soul.

Open source has been the driving force behind a British software company's global growth - except in its home market. What's the problem?

Of all the accusations Microsoft has levelled over the years against open source, perhaps the least contentious is that it lacks the tight integration offered by Microsoft's own products.

An interview with Fedora's Project Leader about how Fedora and Red Hat work together to create the code used in both Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases.

A plan to revise the "constitution" of the free software world, Richard Stallman's General Public Licence (GPL), has split the hacker world in two.

An interview with Larry Sanger - co-founder and "chief organiser" of Wikipedia, and now one of the driving forces behind the ambitious Digital Universe, a free Web guide and collaborative encyclopedia.

In an interview, copyright reform champion Lessig says: “whatever the importance of the freedom of coders, coders will still be just a tiny proportion of the public, but culture is ... much broader."

Part 3 of a short series looking at the rise of open content - text, graphics, videos and music - and its relationship to open source.

The need for an appropriate open content license was felt from the earliest days. Strangely, it was not Richard Stallman who filled this gap: the honor for the creation of the first formal non-software open license goes to David Wiley.

The roots of the open content movement go back to 1971, before free software, before even the Internet existed, when Michael Hart was given an operator's account worth $100 million on a Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the University of Illinois.

  
At least 10% more programming effort is being poured into software released under the General Public License (GPL) than the combined output of all the programmers in Microsoft, says Eben Moglen, who has been analyzing the coding hours per week people have done.

The FSF's General Counsel, Eben Moglen, explains why there is no situation in which the brokenness or otherwise of the GPL is ever an issue: thanks to copyright law, GPL violators are always in the wrong.

Notice all the great publicity over the Firefox 2.0 alpha, and whether it was or wasn't released? Why doesn't the open source world follow the example given by Microsoft with its "Origami" project, and "leak" the odd bit of early code to selected bloggers who can be relied upon to get excited and to spread the word far and wide?

Guardian Technology today launches a campaign - Free Our Data. The aim is simple: to persuade the UK government to abandon copyright on essential national data, making it freely available to anyone to mesh with information created elsewhere.

[ED: Be certain to read how this theft has become endemic in his "Defending Openness". - HC]

The total domination of top-end computing - be it grids or supercomputers - by open source is one of the facts that Microsoft somehow omits to tell us in its "Get The Facts" campaign.

Dave Sifry, ex-Linuxcare, and founder of Technorati, talks about the past, present and future of the world's favorite blog search engine, built using the GNU/Linux, Apache, MySQL, PERL and PHP stack.