The BIOS is one of the most closely guarded pieces of your system's software. Now some people want to set it free.
Linux kernel developer Harald Welte talks about the challenges of single-handedly tackling companies that violate the GPL.
Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman says Microsoft's chairman is blurring the issue of software patents.
General Public License governing heart of popular open-source OS is being updated to deal with patents, other issues. But it'll be a struggle.
Richard Stallman says even if Sun and others follow IBM's lead and started defusing the patent minefield of software development, the battle against software patents must continue.
So far, the open source browser has been getting a free ride -- nobody is criticising it. That is, until now.
At a time when Sun must vie for the attention of IT buyers bombarded by Red Hat, SuSE, Microsoft, IBM and HP, the company knows that it must tap the galvanising force of GNU/Linux rather than offend those who subscribe to it.
Is all the talk about flexibility, choice and eliminating customer lock-in just an idealised view of open-source software?
The most effective way to strengthen our community for the future is to spread understanding of the value of freedom--to teach more people to recognise the moral unacceptability of non-free software.
Open-source activist Bruce Perens uncovers the SCO-Microsoft connection behind a campaign to convince users that trade secrets of Unix have been copied into Linux.
Lines from Unix's source code have been copied into the heart of Linux, sometimes exactly and sometimes in a modified form designed to disguise their origin, SCO Group Chief Executive Darl McBride said Thursday.
When he began his one-man mission in 1984, critics dismissed Richard Stallman as tilting at windmills. Has his labour paid off?
Linux expert claims the open-source community will not make the mistakes of the Unix world.
The next version of the heart of the Linux operating system is expected by June, according to project founder Linus Torvalds.
Big Blue heavyweight Bob wants Sun's Java to be open-sourced and ultimately turned into a standard.
Telstra shareholders fear break up
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