Microsoft's ironic valentine
Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann responds to Allchin barb.
Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann responds to Allchin barb.
commentary When news first surfaced that Novell would be releasing its Novell Linux Desktop (NLD, based on SuSE Linux) ahead of schedule, discussion threads and blogs were all agog (or is that "ablog"?).
The War against Microsoft has been won.
Meet Stuart Cohen, CEO of Open Source Development Labs. In some ways a product out of IBM's old school era, Cohen and his organization are the ecumenical North Pole of an open source world, which is struggling to straddle the fence between the direction it's going (business mainstream) and the place it came from (the hacker community).
An article yesterday on ZDNet argued that Microsoft might soften its stance towards open source, and may even write applications for its famous open source competitor, Linux. A few years ago, I would have been more skeptical.
Some software companies are trying to convince customers to buy software through subscription-like contracts. But the vast majority of them will fail, according to Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
Open standards set terms of competition that advantage the low-cost producer of bits and processing. That's Google.
Yes, open source software benefits society. However, some programmers are questioning the practicability of open source development.
Countless industries have benefited immensely from utilizing open source software - with science and engineering among the sectors driving the charge.
For security researcher, software hacker and activist Jacob Appelbaum, the equation is clear. Anyone working on surveillance or censorship technology is part of a serious global problem.