Steve Wozniak: Open Source good, DRM dying
"Steve Wozniak just weighed in on DRM, saying "it doesn't make much sense if these things are going to have DRM forever." In this great new interview, he complains that even now, only six songs on…
Mandriva adds a semantic layer to the KDE 4 desktop
On the occasion of aKademy 2007, the annual conference of KDE developers and users, Mandriva is proud to announce together with the NEPOMUK partners and the KDE community that the NEPOMUK-KDE…
Ex-HPer Says HP, IBM, Others Susceptible To Open Source
Nora Denzel says open-source software is changing the landscape of an industry led by Hewlett-Packard and IBM.
You might dismiss her as just another fan of open source, the freely available…
General Public License Version 3: A Legal View
The final version of the General Public License Version 3 (“GPLv3) published on June 29th is a significant improvement over General Public License Version 2 (“GPLv2”) and deserves to have broad…
Is Microsoft OOXML the best deal open source can get?
The Microsoft Office formats are in the news again. Massachusetts has backed-down and accepted the Microsoft Office OOXML format as a standard while the companies in Microsoft’s open source orbit…
Open source investment up 33% in Q2
The level of funding in free and open source-related vendors rose over 33% in the second quarter compared to the same period last year, following a decline in the first quarter.
According…
aKademy 2007: The Keynotes
"aKademy 2007 has kicked off. The first weekend hosted our user conference, which brought many talks about various topics, ranging from very technical to more practically oriented, which were…
Slackware 12.0 Released
This first Slackware edition of the year combines Slackware's legendary simplicity (and close tracking of original sources), stability, and security with some of the latest advances in Linux…
Fedora Core 5 Retirement
As of Monday, July 2nd 2007, Fedora Core 5 has gone into retirement. No further updates will be issued for FC5 or FE5 as we refocus our developer attention to development of F8 and maintenance of…
Are top Linux developers losing the will to code?
Core Linux developers are finding themselves managing and checking, rather than coding, as the number of kernel contributors grows and the contributor network becomes more complex.
Are top…