This is a post from my old blog which I have migrated to this Typepad service. The links may not work and comments have been lost. I have modified the publication date to match the publication date of the original article.
I have a long-ish review of open source and its applications outside the software sector. The piece appears in Prospect, Britain's best essay magazine. This issue is worth getting anyway, there is an excellent essay on the clash between cultural diversity and the welfare state, and a great review of the increasing fallibility of the Royal Navy.
And so it begins...