Last month I visited Beijing and Hong Kong on a trip through Asia. It seems that everybody visiting China—Beijing in particular—comes back saying “you just cannot imagine…”. I stayed at…

EWeek’s Jason Brooks has one (print) page to dispel 10 myths about Open Source. He does an excellent job!

I am a proud user of Blender, the free open source 3d content creation suite, but not yet a proud artist. That will take time, practice, and a lot more…

CNN just reported that NASA is refusing to disclose air safety data. The topic paragraph summarizes the facts of the report: Anxious to avoid upsetting air travelers, NASA is withholding…

If Al Gore can win the Nobel Peace Prize for bringing the findings of the scientific community to the political forefront, perhaps Richard Stallman should be next in line for…

I am the son of an anchorman. I am a First Amendment guy. In a statement after Diana’s death, I said the only thing worse than out-of-control photographers with no…

During this morning’s Weekend Edition Saturday, NPR’s Scott Simon reflected on the progress of the One Laptop Per Child XO project, pointing to the salient features of a laptop whose…

Hello all you Open Source fans out there! Some of you have quite rightly suggested enhancements to the overall services OSI offers the Open Source community. We’ve decided to do…

Copied the inbound channel / mailing list to the OSI board: On 9/28/07, Luis Ibanez wrote: OSI Board: As developers of Open Source software, at Kitware we are very excited…

According to an article published in Enterprise Open Source Magazine, CIOs interviewed by Forrester Research rank freedom more important than price or cost when considering open source software.

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…