Microsoft’s agreement to offer Windows XP on OLPC’s XO laptop is appropriate and long overdue. It was pure hypocrasy for Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates to publicly decry the so-called “Digital Divide” while privately refusing to support the XO simply because Linux was a supported operating system. The Gates Foundation has no doubt contributed a great deal to [...]

The War against Microsoft has been won.

Medical companies feared an end to forum shopping and more examination of claims would burden both their efforts to patent inventions and gain redress when patents were violated. So they torpedoed this half-a-loaf solution for technology.

When Sun went open source, Sun had to change. We continue to watch this change with fascination, knowing that without dramatic changes in management attitudes, all the way down the line, Sun can't survive. The same lesson applies to content.

These alliance games are not Google's forte. With all the things it does so well, is the alliance game going to be its undoing?

Red Hat’s Fedora project yesterday quietly released version 9, an upgrade of its open source Linux operating system with support for live USB bootup, OpenJDK6 , KDE 4 and the ext4 file system. Fedora 9, code-named Sulphur, was developed by more than 2,000 volunteer developers, said Paul Frields, Fedora’s recently-appointed project leader. Version 9 offers a variety [...]

The bottom line is there are all sorts of things open source marketers can do with the permission users give them every day.

ReactOS, with sponsorship, might make it in some home offices and small businesses, but it will never get past that niche, and like Windows it will need support. It won't be free.

HP under Hurd is becoming just as important to Microsoft as IBM is to open source. With EDS, a major user of Windows in its own service operations, this becomes clearer.

Instead of just honoring projects, why not organize and advocate for community managers, the profession Sourceforge has done so much to create.