software

The idea of a foundation truly funded by individuals (as opposed to a business consortium like Eclipse or Mozilla, or...

The App Store has Microsoft-sized numbers, the kind that the Justice Department normally looks at closely. Should they?

Microsoft and Apple have built themselves some nice cul de sacs, but in time either the city will roll over...

Without open source, the whole software house of cards would collapse into monopoly. The democracy and capitalism we so pride...

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

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

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.

We're all raindrops in the cloud. You're all magnetic ink. And while there is tremendous economic power coming our way,...