ethics

Just as Marbury vs. Madison showed that the Supreme Court has real power, so OpenOffice.org vs. Oracle has shown that...

PJ really was doing “god's work,” regardless of how she was funded or who she was working with.

Think of this as Volume 15, Number 16 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy. Every generation's...

Sharing the costs of essential infrastructure is what open source is all about. Google shares more of those costs than...

When Republican heavy hitters realize that the difference between Goldman Sachs and Bernie Madoff isn't nearly as great as they've...

Red Hat, and every other open source company of any scale, will always be caught between its values and creating...

The open source process doesn't generate the revenue necessary to run political interference, the way proprietary software does.

The .org creates wealth and spreads it around. The .com tries to make a living and contributes much of that...

In this way you can avoid forks of your code, encourage the growth of the code base, and hopefully grow...

Open source is a process. Democracy is a process. Obey the process and we can all win, with no one...