$1.89 billion in open source funding

While some of us were skiing or eating during the Christmas holidays, Matthew Aslett was crunching the numbers on total open source investments since 2000. The answer? A whopping $1.89 billion.…

Why Dell and other major hardware vendors won't do desktop Linux preinstallation

Dell's recent IdeaStorm experiment reveals increasing demand for Linux and open-source software on the desktop. Since that time, Dell has said that it is still not committed to selling laptops and…

How Open Is "Open"? – Industry Luminaries Join the Debate

Need an "open source" company nowadays merely be "a company that will help you make the switch to open source in your company"?

Nat Torkington raised this week the very real question of…

Help Lobby Washington To Protect Open Source from Software Patents

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property is making another attempt to reform patent law. I need your help to lobby them to add protection from software…

Sun sponsors Free Software Foundation

Sun Microsystems has become a "patron" sponsor of the Free Software Foundation, the organization founded by Richard Stallman that ultimately spawned the open-source software movement.

Linux Foundation Releases New Carrier Grade Linux 4.0 Specification

At the Communications Ecosystem Conference today The Linux Foundation, the new organization formed last month from the merger of the Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group,…

JasperSoft & MySQL AB Partner to Deliver Operational Business Intelligence Solutions

JasperSoft Corporation, the market leader in open source business intelligence, and MySQL AB, developer of the world’s most popular open source database, today announced the availability of Jasper…

Linux Could Prevent Use of 4,200,000,000 kg of Fossil Fuels a Year

There's been a lot of talk in the last couple weeks about the significant negative impact that Windows Vista will have on the environment. Almost 100% of this negative impact is the waste that it…

What You Need to Know About Linux Rootkits

A rootkit is a group of software tools which an attacker can use to hide their tracks. A rootkit can also contain software which allows the attacker to get root access and steal or remove files on…

Money for nothing? Open source VC funding

Matthew Aslett assesses the growth of venture funding for open source vendors and wonders where the payback will come from.

"The VC community is trying to predict where the market is going…