Dana Blankenhorn’s story How far can open source CRM get? has finally pushed me to respond to the many people who have asked “When is the OSI going to stand…

Stanford Professor David Kelley is one of those rare individuals who has successfully added a new way of thinking to Western Thought: Design Thinking. Indeed, the National Academy of Engineering…

kinshuksunil writes to tell us about an upcoming free Open Source event in Delhi… Information is available at http://www.osscamp.in/OSSCampDelhi. While I can’t vouch personally for this event, I attended the…

Here at opensource.org we get lots of spurious requests for “link exchanges”…what do firearms have to do with Open Source? /me ducks while a thousand commenters type an answer ;-)….

It was early June in 1987 when Richard Stallman announced the release of the GNU C compiler version 1.0. As I wrote in Open Sources, it was the most thrilling…

Yesterday I was blog-tagged by Stephen Walli. Does the fact that he tagged for other people mean that I’m not “it”? Oh well…the topic is one that interests me, and I think he started the ball rolling in an interesting direction, so I figure I’ll add my thoughts.

For my money, the three ways that open source can benefit one’s business (presuming you are in the business of open source) is:

In 2003, Nicholas Carr shook up an increasingly irrelevant community of CIOs by publishing the article “IT Doesn’t Matter”. I believe that he got it half right: the irreversable trend…

A few months ago I posted my initial impressions for a draft version of the GPLv3 license, and I am happy to say that as with other licenses developed with…

Alan MacCormack published a new paper entitled A Developer Bill of Rights: What Open Source Developers Want in a Software License for the AEI-Brookings Joint Center. Whenever I see a statement of developer desiderata, I’m reminded of this timeless posting by One Laptop Per Child hacker extraordinaire Chris Blizzard:

The news outlets, radio waves, and blogosphere [1] and [2] continue to buzz with responses to the FORTUNE magazine article where Microsoft claims that many popular Open Source software packages,…

Note: this is just my opinion. The OSI board may have a different opinion if it speaks as a body.

Microsoft is spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) with their latest anti-Linux patent campaign. If they had an actual, solid case of patent infringement, they would go to a judge, get an injunction against the distribution of Linux, and sell patent licenses for FreeBSD. The fact that they don’t, but are willing to sell patent licenses for an unnamed set of infringed patents, says that they have no legal case.