Answered here, (in the affirmative.) There are >100 stories on the net - here is O’Reilly Radar’s take and here is what the BBC has to say - after
Linden Labs announced the open source release of Second Life. It’s released under the GPL, with an additional permission granted allowing the code to […]
This piece broke the news that
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, is set to launch an internet search engine with amazon.com that he hopes will become a rival to Google and Yahoo!
causing an explosion of blogging on the topic. Wikiasari Mania - The Facts, The Myths & Hysteria! are analysed here, […]
… have been an interview with Chris DiBona:
Google’s open source chief talks about the joys of Linux, the cost of Windows and his concerns about the new version of the GPL
and, in the Weekend colour section, a feature about Web 2.0, including interviews with Jimmy Wales and Matt Mullenweg who
began tinkering with open source […]
From thoughtless comments on mailing lists to outright rudeness, women constantly battle the perception that there is no comfortable place for them in the predominately male world of open source software.
That, however, may be beginning to change.
There is a long way to go: according to a FLOSSPOLS survey in 2002 on gender within the […]
A long piece in The Guardian about Joel Klein:The White House lawyer who took on Microsoft is now New York schools chief - helped by Gates’s millions. Despite their adversarial encounters Klein is full of praise for the way Gates behaved when they met again. “It was a perfect storm moment,” he says. “The […]
Martin Taylor, the man behind Microsoft’s FUDdy “Get the Facts” campaign and numerous other strategies to discredit Linux, abruptly parted ways with the company last week, leaving several commentators scratching their heads:
[Suddenly], he was gone. His email was bouncing, and his bio at Microsoft.com, updated June 20, described him as (Former) Corporate Vice President.
This sounds […]
So say Trend Micro - and they should know, they make anti-virus software - for reasons that go to the heart of the open source development model.
Trend claimed that one reason open source software has fewer security issues is the variety of Linux distributions. Although they use the same kernel, if one distribution is compromised […]
From Silicon.com:
Speaking on the final day of Red Hat’s annual user summit in Nashville, [Nicholas] Negroponte[, head of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project,] told an audience of Linux enthusiasts and technology professionals that the OLPC project will lead to mass adoption of the operating system, if the software that powers it is efficient […]
FOSS advocates on either side of the pond came over all patriotic this week with both Americans and Yurpeans staking their claim on the philosophical heart-and-soul of open source.
Eben Moglen, lawyer for the FSF and founder of The Software Freedom Law Centre, took the opportunity provided by a keynote address at Red Hat’s user conference […]
The Telegraph’s Money section today has a profile of the Mozilla Foundation, focusing on their finances and Mitchell Baker, their Chief Lizard Wrangler (translation: President of the foundation). It being The Telegraph, they seem a bit little taken by her being an, erm, woman…
Mitchell Baker does not look like a typical technology geek. The first […]
As the Ubuntu community gears up for next month’s release of Dapper Drake, founder Mark Shuttleworth’s for-profit open source company, Canonical Ltd., is preparing up to offer commercial support for the distro. The company already offers certification and Desktop Linux questions whether they have what it takes to position Ubuntu as a serious player in […]
CNN.com’s Business site has an interview with Linus Torvalds in which he talks about the early years of Linux and what he actually does these days:
[Interviewer]: Now let’s go back to the beginnings when Linux first started in the early 1990s. What motivated you to give away the source code?
[Linus]: I didn’t start thinking I […]
Information Week delves into the coding dynamics of the open source world, looking at where the donkey-work comes from in the development process. InfoWorld suggests why one might wish to join in with said work, whereas elsewhere on Information Week there are reasons one would perhaps avoid it.
Of course, one of the prime motivators for […]
Newsforge has a fascinating dissection of the FSF’s tactics in its newly unveiled campaign against DRM, particularly its attempts to reframe the argument for their benefit:
The Free Software Foundation has always been concerned about the power of language. Most famously, it is known for insisting on the term “GNU/Linux” and giving “free software” equal […]
Desktop Linux managed to get an interview with Michael Dell on their chosen subject, asking when his company is going to stop pussyfooting around with Linux “workstations” that look like desktops, etc. The problem, apparently, is with the nature of Linux…
“People are always asking us to support Linux on the desktop, but the question is: […]
Mozilla announced the winners of its Extend Firefox Contest to find the best extensions for the browser. Reveal - which creates thumbnails for page session histories - took the top prize, with Web Developer and Showcase also taking gongs.
Firefox itself has won a popularity contest with just under 50% of respondents saying it was the […]
Gervase Markham has an amusing column on Times online today detailing his attempts to convince the UK’s anti-piracy people that anyone can sell copies of Firefox and that he’s not just a banana merchant.
In a really interesting story, The Guardian got it’s Watchdog on when faced with companies charging for copies of free software on […]
Speaking in the Phillipines, Ubuntu’s founder has been calling on governments around the world to promote the use of open source software not just to corporations but to their populations at large, according to local news outlet Inq 7.
Linus announced on Wednesday that, following the upcoming GPL revision, his baby will be sticking on 2.0, describing some of the DRM provisions in the draft of v3.0 as “insane”.
Here it is at eWeek, Silicon.com, The Register, PcPro and CNet.
ZDNet has a profile of FSF lawyer - and lynchpin of the GPL revision process - Eben Moglen, and eWeek got some thoughts from Richard Stallman on the new license.
If you fancy reading something more personal, Information Week got Stallman on the couch to talk about his childhood and its influence on the themes of […]