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In Open Source Development, Does Money Change Everything?

Berdou examined parallels and disconnects between paid and volunteer contributors in the GNOME and KDE projects, using earlier incidents of such events (such as...

Microsoft taints open source CodePlex well

Microsoft is posting code to its much-trumpeted CodePlex open-source projects site using licenses and conditions that go against the principles of open source. Link: theregister.co.uk Category:...

Open source can still win in a down economy

In meetings with venture investors in the last few days, it became clear that the impact of the credit crisis and the overall bleak...

Open-source server appliance is “free”

KangarooBox is shipping a "free" open-source server appliance that runs Debian 5 GNU/Linux. Targeting small offices, the silent, fanless "Joey" employs an AMD Geode-based...

Is the end near for independent open source?

For the first time I'm scared for open source. Not open source as a global movement and way of doing business and software development...

Making multi-player games an (almost) open-source experience

Video games have long struck me as a perfect platform for open-source development. Unfortunately, many gamers agreed, and the courts are littered with copyright...

Standards, Open Standards and Double Standards

Earlier this week IBM announced that it intends to wage war against Microsoft in the world’s standards bodies. The motivation for this bellicose declaration...

When It Comes to Openness, Think Beyond the Code

A few years ago I stumbled upon the efforts of the Victoria Linux Users Group. They are an active, involved group, but not particularly...

CeBIT 2009 to Focus on Open Source: Call for Projects

Today Linux Magazine, the Linux Foundation, and CeBIT organizers announced that they are taking applications for a limited number of free booths at the...

Openness is the Solution to the (Double) Subprime Crisis

As I listen to all this talk of lack of trust in the banking system, of inflated values ungrounded in any reality, of “opacityâ€Â,...