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Egypt and Tunisia are middle class revolutions, not open source revolutions. They are the products of mass education and engagement...

The mainstream can't be ignored. Hardware doesn't build itself.

The need for open source in hardware is just now becoming apparent.

The way forward is for other publishers to do what Dan Farber and David Berlind did years ago at ZDNet....

What's at stake is the principle that innovation is driven by competition.

IBM helped Apache launch Project Harmony but dropped it like a hot potato when another big corporation came along offering...

Zdnet-logo-big By building an essentially proprietary system, with his own resources, Markos has taken his eye off that ball.

Web hosts are becoming Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS). A cloud system like EC2 or OpenStack becomes the operating system...

Coates is aiming Canvas at university CIOs and at state governments, who are now approaching the idea of learning management...

Open source is no longer obscure. Which means you need to take the same precautions Microsoft sysadmins have been forced...