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Microsoft's latest move to embrace open source is to hire Gianugo Rabellino as senior director, open source communities. Gianugo's open...

In a way, it's Bob Metcalfe himself. More likely it's one of his employees or graduate students.Metcalfe has made the...

There is no reason why someone like Markos Moulitsas can't hire someone like Keith Olbermann to run a daily news...

Not all blogs are journalism. But the idea that they they are separate ideas, that there is a difference between...

OpenStack has made a good start, but their success (or failure) in organizing the work, keeping everyone on task, and...

Only Congress has the power to recall the lawyers now marching for software patents, but that won't happen in a...

Copyright means control. If you're going to become part of an open source community, look at copyright first.

Standards grow markets faster than any proprietary offering. Some 40 years of technology history argues for it.

Ed Begley Jr. may be extreme, but there are lots of less-driven people trying to minimize their "carbon footprint" with...

Real cyberwar doesn't just take place in cyberspace. Real cyberwar takes place in meat space, and is a concentrated effort...