In the run up to LinuxCon, we’ve sat down with a number of the conference’s keynote speakers. This week it’s IBM’s Vice President of Open Source and Linux Bob Sutor. Bob is kicking off LinuxCon with his...
The interweaving of open standards and open source software is common enough that it doesn't always register with folks why open source companies prefer open standards. There's this automatic assumption that if a company uses open sourced technology, then of course they would use open standards.
After a development cycle lasting exactly three months (June 9 to September 9), Linus Torvalds has released the 2.6.31 kernel. This cycle saw the inclusion of almost 11,000 different changes from over 1100 individual developers representing some 200 companies...