At the heart of the open-source revolution
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Lotus founder Mitch Kapor oversees two open-source software foundations. His success could make Microsoft miserable.
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The dangers of software patents for free software have always been a hot issue.  But with the news that Red Hat and Novell are being sued for alleged patent infringement by IP Innovation, the matter has moved from theory into practice.  In fact, in the battle against software patents, it turns out that the open source world already has a rather powerful weapon in its armoury â even if it's one that few people know about. read more
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Open Source methodology has gained some ground in one of the last places you and I might expect: In the development area of corporations. Consultants are calling environments like Sourceforge Enterprise Edition a Digital Development Environment.
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Fans of open-source programming and multiplayer gaming explore ways to bring the concept of the metaverse -- an infinitely expandable virtual world -- closer to fruition. By Daniel Terdiman.
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Open source is not always the best software.  When it's not, use something else.  Is this complicated?
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It seems that the proprietary world is doing just fine in the face of open source.  But for how long?
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'Open source' means lots of people and resources can help, but here's a reference for both beginners and the experienced.
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Je ne regrette rien - kinda 10th birthday interview Bruce Perens doesn't regret the fact that, since officially co-birthing open source with The Cathedral and the Bazaar author and hacker Eric Raymond ten years ago, Linux and open source have moved from the sandal-wearing fringes to acceptance by Wall Street and big, closed-source industry giants.â¦
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The trials and tribulations of application dependency in a virtualized, hosted world.
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While open-source software is new to the Middle Kingdom, Beijing is looking to change that. Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik explains why.
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Three Illuminata research notes take a look at some of the intersections between cloud computing, the way operating systems are designed, and open source.
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It's not every day that the entire technical press goes bonkers over news in the open source world, but that's what happened last week, when Sun announced that it was buying MySQL.  Doubtless, the pleasant roundness of the sum involved - $1 billion â helped, as did the fact that most of that was cash.  But leaving aside the sense of satisfaction that events in the free software world should be suddenly thrust centre-stage, Sun's move does raise a larger question about the fate of all open source start-ups. read more
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Gone are the days when free software could blithely ignore what was happening in the world of proprietary code.  The two approaches are now inextricably intertwined as more and more users and companies choose to run both.  One paradoxical consequence of this is that as free software becomes more widely deployed, Microsoft's impact on it becomes greater.  Against this background, a recent shift in Microsoft's public statements about open source assumes a particular importance.
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In theory, the open-source concept is simple, elegant, almost utopian: thousands of developers contributing their skills to continually improve and refine a piece of software for the common good.
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Portland, Oregon, is ground zero for all things open source this week, as Ubuntu Live and O'Reilly OSCON descend on the Oregon Convention Center. We'll have live updates from both shows -- Linux on the desktop, open-source development, hardware support -- it's all here.
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Ziff Davis - Linux and open source are at the heart of today's computing technology. Deal with it.
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Linux advocates have long insisted that open-source development results in better and more secure software. Now they have statistics to back up their claims.