Article Source FOSSBazaar
April 12, 2009, 8:42 am

CMSWire takes a look at the Ms-PL: "The rumors are true. Microsoft (news, site) has an official open source license that was approved by the Open Source Initiative...

Article Source FOSSBazaar
April 10, 2009, 11:17 am

Ars Technica reports from the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, which is taking place this week: "Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin says that Linux adop...

Article Source Linux Journal
April 9, 2009, 9:00 am

Way back in January, the Linux Foundation launched a search — a global search — to find something that was sorely missing. No, not Linus's car keys: the face of Linux. Just three months later, they have.

Article Source Linux Journal
April 9, 2009, 2:43 am

Sharing lies at the heart of free software, and drives much of its incredible efficiency as a development methodology. It means that coders do not have to re-invent the wheel, but can borrow from pre-existing programs. Software patents, despite their name, are about locking down knowledge so t...