When he began his one-man mission in 1984, critics dismissed Richard Stallman as tilting at windmills. Has his labour paid off?
Sun Microsystems' president, Jonathan Schwartz, has proclaimed ardent support for the open-source software realm but criticised the General Public License, a widely used foundation of the programming movement.
Sun can't afford to be seen as anti-Linux - so how do they balance that with being a rival to Red Hat?
The Free Software Foundation is no longer committing to the planned March deadline for a new version of the General Public License, but a third draft of the seminal open-source license is due soon.
Sun Microsystems' Java is now officially an open-source project mostly.
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Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.
Linux expert claims the open-source community will not make the mistakes of the Unix world.
The idea expressed in many articles--that GNU/Linux is good for servers but not for the desktop--is a joke. The fact is, Linux will prevail.
The growing influence of the Linux operating system and the open-source software movement will be on display as several large companies announce products and plans at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.
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