Elena Blanco of OSS Watch writes:

The first OSS Watch newsletter of 2010 has been published and is available on our website at http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/newsletters/january2010.pdf

We wanted to start the New Year with a bit of a bang and so we are pleased to announce the publication of one of our most difficult-to-produce articles 'Microsoft: an end to open hostilities?'  I say difficult-to-produce because we take our non-advocacy role very seriously and so balancing this article with all of the history and strong feelings on all sides was both delicate and time consuming. We are pleased with the result; we hope you will be too.

There's also a write-up of OSS Watch's recent workshop on 'open source, open development and open innovation', as well as a discussion on the relative merits of mailing lists and discussion forums.