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As SCO’s attack against Linux collapses, with Judge Dale Kimball’s ruling on the Novell copyrights making it plainer than ever that the lawsuit was fraudulent from the word go, we’re now seeing recantations from two of SCO’s three major journalistic stooges — Dan Lyons and Rob Enderle. The third, Maureen O’Gara, has yet to be…

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein Last week I flew to Las Vegas to talk on stage with The Gartner Group‘s lead open source analyst Mark Driver at their 2007 Open Source Summit. The subject of the discussion was a paper…

QNX is claiming that effective today, they will “open” the “source” code to its QNX embedded product.

RMS is leading people off on his own path again. He’s saying that if people want to keep their freedom they better not follow Torvalds. While it’s great that RMS doesn’t compromise his principles, the principle that he isn’t compromising isn’t necessary. RMS constantly tells us that it is the word “Free” which is important.…

There’s been a lot of debate in the community about how OSI should properly handle Microsoft’s planned submission of some of its licenses for OSD certification. That debate has been been going on within OSI, too. OSI’s official position, from the beginning, which I helped formulate and have expressed to any number of reporters and…

I never quite have understood why the mainstream press concentrates so much on what companies are doing. For example, see Jon Brodkin’s NetWorld article, wherein he talks about nine open source companies to watch. Maybe they write more about companies with funding because they’re the people more likely to buy advertising than nonprofit projects. Yes,…

In 2005 I visited India for the first time. It was a whirlwind tour and one of the most eye-opening experiences of my life. The purpose of my visit was to promote open source based on my own experiences, and to get a first-hand understanding of the challenges and opportunities for open source in the…

Mark Webbink has launched a new blog called Walking With Elephants. If Mark had been a developer working on glibc he might have gotten away with “Dances With Wolves”, but as a lawyer who has spent many years working with some of the largest software companies in the world, his title is certainly apt. As…

Earlier this summer I attended an event featuring Diane Rehm, host of The Diane Rehm Show. At a time when the radio talk show format seems to have reached a point where the only way to be heard is to yell, and where the outrageous behavior of the host becomes news far more important than…