Microsoft's Cultural Revolution

Newsweek: But there are signs of change: from cars to couture, more Western companies are starting to crack the Chinese code. The outlook is improving for Microsoft as well, owing in part to a 180-degree shift in strategy. On several...

The Success of Open Source

San Francisco Chronicle: The growing popularity of the Linux operating system has drawn attention to a style of software development in which volunteers, collaborating over the Internet, can create programs that are cheaper, even arguably better, than those that emerge...

Linux Moves to The Desktop

Investor's Business Daily: A new operating system war is brewing on desktop PCs, and it's not Windows vs. Mac, or even Windows vs. Linux. This time, it's Linux vs. Linux. Red Hat and Novell - already foes in the market...

Google Challenges Microsoft Monopoly

TechWeb: While Linux advocates look to desktop software to challenge Microsoft's desktop championship, a new top-ranked contender is coming from a direction that's both unexpected and obvious: Google. But first, Google needs to overcome privacy concerns, as proposed terms of...

Linux Brings Peace to Sun and Microsoft

San Jose Mercury: So what prompted the peace? Both firms are now under the threat from the spread of cheap, ``open source'' software, such as the Linux operating system. Dan Kusnetzky, an analyst with IDC, said customers are tired of...

Open Source Software Penetrates Government

InfoWorld: 2004 may be the year for open source software to catch on in a big way in government agencies. For years, federal, state, and local agencies have been using open source software - some in the open, some on...

Creative Commons Open Source Legal Documents Makes Open Source Legal, Easy And For the Common Good

CreativeCommons: I had an oppportunity to attend the Creative Commons bash in SF this past Sunday. Some of the coolest, hippest people in SF and at Stanford are creating a new set of legal tools to enable open source content...

Public Library of Science - Open Source Science

CreativeCommons: The Public Library of Science is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. PLoS emerged in October 2000 through the effort of three dynamic and highly respected scientists: Nobel...

Huge Growth of Open Source Music, Video Using Creative Commons Model

CSM: ...So it does not come as a surprise that Berklee, among the country's most prestigious music institutions, is at the front of a small but influential pack of schools moving unprecedented amounts of content online. After the Recording Industry...

Microsoft Fumes As Aussies Pass Open Source Bill

The Australian: ...Joining a number of jurisdictions worldwide — including several Brazilian cities — Australia's capital passed Democrats-sponsored legislation designed to give open source software a leg up. With the Democrats warning the ACT is just the beginning, opponents of...

Shift To Open-Source Software Ups Ante For Microsoft, Oracle

Facing strong competition in online travel reservations, Sabre Holdings Corp. decided to overhaul its technology - allocating $100 million on a risky, new approach. Sabre replaced its mainframes with low-end servers and open-source software. Sabre, which expects sales of...

Major vendors to push Linux to the desktop

InfoWorld.com: Inspired by stirrings among corporate users for desktop Linux and with Microsoft’s forthcoming Longhorn operating system not expected on desktops until 2005, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell are augmenting their corporate Linux desktop wares. Novell and Red Hat...

First Linux Desktop Conference: To push desktop Linux, radical shift may be required

OnLamp.com: A conference on desktop Linux, the first of its kind, was held in the Boston, Massachusetts area on November 10. The forum allowed the leaders of Linux and free software development to evaluate the progress these have made on...

Linus Torvald: Leader of the Free World

Wired: Linux's mainstream arrival is testament not only to the worth of the code contributed by programmers working out of love rather than pursuit of a paycheck, but to the power of its progenitor, who still gives a thumbs-up or...

Open Source Everywhere

Wired: ... Open source has spread to other disciplines, from the hard sciences to the liberal arts. Biologists have embraced open source methods in genomics and informatics, building massive databases to genetically sequence E. coli, yeast, and other workhorses of...

Ten Inventions That Will Change Your World

Newsweek via MSNBC: [Creative types have] continued to ply their craft in labs and basements, producing ideas that seem obscure, even loopy, until a closer look reveals their world-shifting import. Here are 10 such individual visions that may change our...

Sinbad and Linux brave the high seas

Infoworld Now Tux, the Linux mascot, is rubbing elbows with Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michelle Pfeiffer. These Hollywood stars all give their voices to characters in DreamWorks LLC's "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas," the studio's first animated film...

Linux Goes Consumer

InternetNews.com: Building on an alliance established in December to collaborate on the development of open source operating system Linux for digital consumer electronics, partners Sony and Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic) Tuesday brought together six other firms to create the CE...

Open Source Paradigm Shift

Gotzeblogged: Tim O'Reilly Talk: The open source paradigm shift is happening now as part of the wider internet paradigm shift. We're seeing commodity software with an open architecture, and information applications decoupled from both hardware and software. The main characteristics,...

Legal Dispute Unnerves Linux Users

New York Times: For the true believers in free software, Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, has long been the figurative devil. Yet suddenly, Mr. Gates has a rival for their animosity. The unlikely challenger is Darl C. McBride, the...

A Look at Alternatives to Microsoft

Gartner: Many governments and enterprises worldwide are trying to insulate themselves from Microsoft's growing influence on the IT industry. Linux and open-source software are increasingly interesting alternatives....