Open Source / GPL

Back in the days when evangelizing Linux and open source was still exciting, I almost got lynched for a simple statement at a Linux conference. The statement: “Linux will only be important when no…

Dignitaries from the open source arena pondered the paradigm's future at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, anticipating even greater ubiquity.

Executives from…

Vendors increasingly want to tweak the meaning of open source to include, for example, attribution licensing, which says the user can modify and redistribute the software, and make derivative…

Gartner today joined squabbling by vendors over the meaning, purpose and spirit of open source by declaring that users demand the right to modify and redistribute software code and the resulting…

The Minister of Reform and Innovations in Public Administration, Luigi Nicolais, and the President of the Center for the application of Italian Ministry of Innovation and Technology Politics (…

OpenRank is an open source project to create a better ranking algorithm/process. A processes that can not only be used for searching webpages, but for any other item, in a multi consumer-producer…

The proposed SOA Runtime Framework Project could show how user organizations such as DPWN can swiftly catapult mission-critical infrastructure for service-oriented architecture into an open source…

“Software prices will eventually fall to zero. The open-source software movement has already started that commoditisation.”

This pronouncement came recently from MIT professor Michael A…

The Japanese government wants to go open source, as a way to rely less on a single vendor IT software infrastructure. And plenty of vendors are lining up to help make this happen.

The…

Open source is not a movement; it's a religion. It is a set of principles and practices that let everyone share nonexistent or semi-existent intellectual property. Remember the Communist Manifesto…