- Mon Jul 14 2008 Microsoft and the opportunity to cash in on "free"
Microsoft has a chance to expand its dominance, but it needs to embrace disruption, not hide from it.
- Thu Jul 29 2004 Red Hat to serve Java
Red Hat next week will offer support services for an open-source Java application server.
- Wed Dec 12 2007 Study: 95 percent of all e-mail sent in 2007 was spam
We're being inundated by spam. How could community-based approaches help?
- Fri Feb 27 2009 Novell puts Linux on sale as earnings disappoint
The company's first quarter disappoints investors, as well as CEO Ron Hovsepian, but its dependence on Microsoft to sell Suse Linux is the real disappointment.
- Wed Dec 3 2008 Wikipedia gets $890,000 for the Luddites
User-built online encyclopedia receives grant to hire new developers, with a goal of making the occasionally confusing interface friendlier to non-geek contributors.
- Tue Jul 7 2009 Mono promise is nice, Microsoft. What about Linux?
Microsoft has now publicly stated that it won't sue users and developers over Mono, but that's small change compared to the real promise we need to see: no infringement lawsuits over Linux.
- Tue May 6 2008 Linux video project evades DMCA, back on Google Code
A company has withdrawn an allegation that CoreAVC-for-Linux violates its copyright and now is cooperating with the project, which is hosted at Google Code.
- Mon Apr 20 2009 Oracle gets Sun for $7.4 billion, MySQL for $0
Oracle's bid for Sun takes the industry back to the olden days of integrated hardware and software, and in the process reveals a great way to monetize open source.
- Mon Oct 22 2007 The EU opens up Microsoft. Kind of. Sort of. Not really?
Is the software giant getting off too easily with the EU? With all the hoopla surrounding Microsoft's capitulation to the EU's demands over interoperability, it's important to remember just how far the deal doesn't go.
- Wed Oct 24 2007 Sun plans to countersue NetApp
ZFS file system can't be un-open-sourced, Schwartz says on his blog. And if Sun wins, it'll donate some proceeds to open-source and patent reform causes.




